AMERICAN REACTS To Prison Project: Little Scandinavia 

The biggest problem with American prisons, is that they are run as a business, whereas in Scandinavia(and probably rest of Europe, they are run by the governments, and not for profit

I cried my eyes out when the inmates entered their refurbished prison facilities. Both the inmates and the staff looked so happy and grateful!

Thank you for sharing this experience. I am proud to say that I'm the former superintendent. I retired last year. The project is long overdue, and I am anxious to see it succeed.

Again prove that not the US Americans are bad, but the system. Thanks Dar!

Also when they are being friendly with the inmates it also create a bigger "step" for someone to fight you/hurt you. Because, you dont often hurt your friends, do you? =)

The show is only in Sweden atm, but it is in the category of productions funded by SVT that are going on export. So given the subject matter I wouldn't be surprised if an american network bought the rights to show it. It already won some awards at media export shows/conferences.

The first part of the series was shown 2 weeks ago in sweden on SVT(Public television)

This is shown on SVT play, but only in sweden, maybe you could with vpn

They did continue. This show has recently been broadcast in Sweden and Finland as a 3 part miniseries. I just watched the first episode myself and it's good. It's basically this clip but more in-depth, it's 45 minutes long. The next 2 episodes are about what happens in SCI Chester, I'll be watching them the next couple of days. I'm sure the full series will turn up in America somewhere at some point as well or maybe on RU-vid.

After watching a bunch of reaction videos relating to the Nordic prison system I always fantasized about someone with the means to do a trial like this in the US, nice to see it actually happened and seemingly went well. I hope what we see is the reality and not played up to the camera.

It's important to remember what you want from putting people in prison. Do you want to be neighbor with the person who has been treated like shit for years and lost trust in people, or do you want to be neighbor with the person who have been rehabilitated and allowed to grow away from the environment that put them in jail in the first place?

9:57 I hope the US does this reform and Scandinavian prisons are then second best. Then we can come to you and learn how to improve even more. Win-win! ☺️

I just subbed. Loved you're videos on the great swedish adventure .

If you can find all three episodes streaming anywhere they're well worth the watch. No idea where it's available in the us, I watched it on svt using a vpn in sweden

Scandinavian prisons focus on dynamic security. Meaning that officers having good relationships with inmates leads to less confrontations and conflicts between inmates and staff.

....now get rid of that fucking death penalty! Greetings fom Germany

update. not one sigel inmate have so far gone back to prison. after bening relesed from prison after spending time in Littel Scandinavia Inmate Kevin was released from prison after 33 years wrongfully convicted

Just binge watched the whole 3 part docu on yle areena. Excellent docu, highly recommend it.

In America it is too harsh and in Scandinavia we might be too soft on criminals, I'd like for it to be somewhere in the middle. It is important that victims of crime receive redress and justice. As a swede I'm leaning more towards that we need to have harsher penalties and less "nice" prisons. I mean some prisoners get better food than what they serve in most public schools, that's not right.

I was apart of it I loved on the unit for over 2 years its in pa

It´s all about resoializing criminals. We want them to stay out of trouble and learn empathy. A few cannot be reached but most do better after

Great reaction!More please.😊👍

Yeah, absolutely loved your reaction - and not least your open-mindedness! I've had conversations with a few Americans about the respective prisons in Scandinavia vs. the U.S - and most, unfortunately almost always are 'hung up' the PUNISHMENT-bit. And I know that I've 'reminded' them of, or asking them if they really want to live by the Old Testament's maxim "An eye for an eye" - rather than having (or getting) a released prisoner, filled with hatred and lust for blood and revenge 'on the system' and everyone in it (which essentially the prison-system 'created' them) as their neighbor, or in their neighborhood? -Like: isn't it about time that we 'upgrade' the 'system' more according with the New Testament's values instead? (Almost) whatever they might have committed and/or however long their sentence is - isn't it about time that we recognize them as humans as well, anyway? Sure, these might be humans who have committed more or less big 'mistakes' - but they're still humans, right? We all make mistakes - BECAUSE we are humans! And no-one knows their particular back-story....there usually, if not always is a perfectly understandable reason for why they ended up the 'road' they travelled. (Sure - that might not provide an excuse, but it certainly usually provides an explanation!). And also - ultimately the question is: since most of these people are getting out one day. Do we want them to come out the same, worse or actually 'rehabilitated'? THAT is the question. The question for the entire society to reeeeeaaally take a long and hard time to ponder - what kind of people do we want back into our societies? -Institutionalized, violent, ostracized people filled with hatred and plagued with all kinds of traumas? OR -Rehabilitated, 'calm', educated and/or trained people who've been prepared and trained to take on a job (which they'll not 'only' have been educated and trained for - but are actually also given a fair chance to get)? Whom of these two people would YOU prefer to meet, sometime in the future? This here was the Norwegian prison-system, and I'm from Sweden. We in the Nordic countries have somewhat similar prison-systems - although Norway is still, admittedly in the absolute forefront when it comes to setting up this system as well as they have. Although I believe that Canada have also adopted a somewhat rather similar 'system'. Anywho - the very foundation of this system is that when you're found guilty of a crime and are to be given your sentence, you'll be presented with a choice. Either to go to a rather 'normal' prison (normal for Scandinavia that is, still a far cry from the system in the U.S - but still 'locked up in pretty much the same way, very limited chance for visitation and a rather limited chance for any correspondence with the 'outside world') - OR, you'll be given the opportunity to go to a prison like this one. To be given this chance however you'll have to follow either a practical or theoretical training/education to be able to get a job whenever you get out. And, another big difference is that 'the stick' is no longer the main tool - but rather the 'carrot'....that is, the longer you 'behave', stick to schedules and so on, the more 'points' you'll be given - and with that, more and more 'freedom'. As in freedom to be able to first spend a couple of hours, a day and finally a weekend with your girlfriend, wife and /or kids or other family - in a separate house on the premise! And, as the date of your release is coming up - you'll progressively be given the chance to leave the premise for (again progressively longer time) an hour, two, over the day and so on to go to school or visit family and so on. And when the date of your release comes up, you will not 'only' pretty much have been progressively 're-introduced' into "normal society", but will have a job and also a place to live. Needless to say - almost everyone 'chose' this latter one. And the rate of reoffenders has been found to be extremely low. (Probably as they've gotten rehabilitation for their eventual drug-use or other mental issues - and practically a 'fresh', new start at a new life, with an education, job and their own place to live [which they of course pay for themselves, off their salaries]!). We need to re-think the whole 'punishment'-thing - if for nothing else that we all know well by know that it doesn't work. As a matter of fact, it tends to make things worse. The 'stick' is outdated and counterproductive - and the 'carrot' have shown itself to work. And work well! It makes (almost?) everyone want to 'better themselves' - since they get rewarded for it! Greetings from Sweden! (And just in case anyone wonders - no, I've never been to prison! ;-) )

I think the whole process of rehabilitating inmates into the society starts with prison, but it’s not the whole story. For this to succeed it also needs a society that supports you in getting a job and helping you out when things are tough. And I’m not convinced that american society can do that. So this is a good start, but you’d need to change the basic structure of the society to get to the results nordic countries have had.

Only USA and the middle east that still have the death penalty.🤨

2023 update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eV8MenB8HOU.htmlfeature=shared

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