Swedish Prison vs United States Prison - How Do They Actually Compare? 

Remove privatised prisons for a start

make Frick Chambers

Vaccinate your children

Stop lying to themselves drop the "correctional facility" name and call them what they are

Don't forget that they usually sit 1/3 of their punishment and life time

Å FAN, det har jag aldrig hört talas om XD tackar bröder :)

Hahahahaha i thought it’s a joke, and then I googled 😂😂

@@Imponderabilia995 Me too lol.

You forget the best part, these were not run of the mill criminals but they were hardliners that included murderers

but at some point you have to deal with the fact that these are criminals who are being treated like VIP's. I am totally against what they do in America, but prison should not be a treat either. yes, punishment is in my view part of the bigger goal.

THANK YOU. I'm glad someone said it

​@Blobbish Yes, but the difference is that many prisons in the US are run by private companies who benefit from housing as many prisoners as they can. Therefore they want the prisoners to stay in prison and not to rehabilitate them.

everything in america is a business

true

everything in capitalism is a buisness comrade

I dont know if peddofiles for exp should get treated like humans. Its not like u can cure them anyway.

@@williamlindroos2250 Well they still try.

I grew up in Kumla. :) The town, not the prison.

@@williamlindroos2250 if you treat them as animals they will act as one. By doing this you totally destroy any chance of being a better person, the safety of guards and other prisoners becomes a higher risk. Why because you want to punish them. They are away from society and that's enough.

Filip Granberg Åh jag med!! Inte ofta man stöter på folk från Kumla här hahaha

So true.

@@crosby_underscore4987 love your name

BIG BRAIN

@@syfico lol

Humans are actually animals, but I get it

I Saw that and was happy because im swedish

Axel Hvetlander hej!

More like left the country to go to Sweden! 😂😂

@@axelhvetlander2365 Same here

@@axelhvetlander2365 same

Yup, 'profits' made on the backs of taxpayers, profit for a select few ... what a parasitic system [just adding to your comment]

If they are going for profit they aren’t doing that well

So true. And it is so sad. Alot of talent and workforce wasted

The prison system in Sweden is a joke. Our prisons is literally like hotels

@@madde538 Did you even watch the video?

You know, that's honestly something I would do.

according to Aftonbladet the prison chef was mad at prisoners because they didnt invite him to Kladdkaka. LOL this is so funny

@@D1ONY5US Murdur someone?

jk pls dont report me

That was staged. They weren't prisoners at all.

Menar du att du är kriminell?

@@Jungfrun1 haha han kanske e det

HomzTV r u criminal m8

Planerar du att leva i fängelset eller?

HomzTV dåligt brottsregister? 😏

Golden Aura yes. We laughed hard at his complain.

Funny thing is tho y’all would cry if y’all were in the same situation ASAP rocky was in

@@Spartan-ip5qm He and his bodyguards assaulted another human. He wasn't in any situation which he didn't put himself in.

@@jessielinn9713 ye, true

Hugomacvil fast det var inte han som klagade, det var TMZ som kom med fake news, asap hade inga dåliga synpunkter på själva häktet i sig utan bara på faktumet att han var där

NOt Fony Didn't lAf

????

Bebe

yeay

Finally i was looking for a comment like this

We don't know anything about justice in America. We know about revenge.

@@moret25 revenge is not the way of the jedi.

@@oharryc From my point of view the Jedi are evil!

@@oharryc revenge is not the jedi way! Get your quotations right.

To me the lack of freedom is a harsh punishment

@@texas6792 I see you're a really proud boy

@@texas6792 yeah because usa has the highest population

@@mateuspereira8623 Ew texas

Also In Sweden prison is the last resort. It's not the first choice especially for drug abusers

no lol the us hasen't had escape convicts in a while

@@views-kb6sv japan is insane in escaping

@Dummkopf no as a fellow swede your english is good < 3 but that's hilarious how they didn't decide to escape

Once in Sweden guard on watch had some health issues. When prisoners saw something was wrong started yelling guard's name. Half concious guard hearing that opened cells. Prisoners rushed to the guard and called for help

@@realdragon that's so...oh my god even my classmates couldn't do that

🤣

*Mortal fool!*

Hahahah

Karl den 12te

@@williamlindroos2250 Aa han va bra

They aren't great for doing this.

@@darkwolf4434 yeah they are

Nords

As a danish person i kinda have to hate them cuz of anceint blood bonds and the like

@@justacanofbeans8217 Understandable, i do indeed share your situation and am forced to say this... UT MED DANSKE-JÄVLNARNA!

Mahmoud Almouhtadi yes and no. There should still be a type of punishment to pay for what they did. But it should be a punishment fit for humans, not animals.

>people that do crimes probably have a lot of life problems and should get help and treated well... just like how drug addicts get treated! So they should be rewarded for murdering people ?

Cruzwindu777 DEfFSFF this

@@cruzwindu777deffsff4 How is it a reward? Going to prison does not make your life better.

@@thehiddenninja3428 >How is it a reward? If the punishment for killing someone you hate is being confined to a 5 stars hotel, then I don't think lots of people will struggle with the idea anymore.

Well thats not really the point of a prison

But in Finland its better than heaven

Suomi perkele

Correct, Norway and Finland have like 5 star hotels in comparison to the US. Sweden got maybe a 4 star hotel :P

no it isnt svergie är bättre

Mr. Friendship I agree

Jailbreak intensifies

Deaths Ratio Players = 50:!

Mr. Friendship facts

Lol I agree

The fact that your comment was the only one I laughed at is funny because I laughed at your profile picture, not the comment.

Du är svensk men du har en amerikansk president som profilbild

@@roniaydin7917 Du är människa men har en tecknad gubbe som profilbild

I am Norwegian

Hi Sweedish, I'm dad

True

What's scary to me is... maybe we won't. America is slow to change and impossible to be forced to do something from an outside force. It is much more likely that prisoners will continue to be treated like this over the next 50+ years.

I'm not going to tell mine anything as such, I live in the Netherlands. I'll tell them about covid, show my mouthmasks and newspapers. And tell them off for eating Moondust-glowies that make 'em glow in the dark (available in 2065)

@@LancesArmorStriking Ever heard of the civil rights movement?

@@thegreatandmightyseff7214 now it will be the prison rights movement

exactly

Didnt they say in the video they had to close down prisons because they didn’t have enough money?

Edvin Alcantara no, Because there wasn’t enough prisoners I think

@@victorpetersson6709 in the US they had to close it because of money, in Sweden they closed it because it was too empty

I love goooooold.

Not that much taxes in comparison to all The free universal stuff we get

Yes velcome to sweden and norway

True that😂

@@jonashallberg6626 Denmark is also a part of Scandinavia, i believe

@@miranzangana5141 you believe? Have you gone to school?

ok och hur ska de som inte talar svenska förstå titeln då?

@@mmmboj4714 jag är ganska säker på att de flesta som kollade på denna video är svenskar som såg "Swedish" i titeln

Ja det har är bra

Antonio-Marian Galu jeg mener ikke alle er svenske der er også nogle folk fra andre lande : P

@@CoverCode Men jag ser att du är kapabel att läsa på svenska om det behövs.

Swedish culture is against the use of drugs so only very few people would even buy them

Currently in Sweden we have drug cartels at territorial war over the city of Malmö.

Norway

mogram pro there are drugs everywhere in Sweden, every little city has it, just go out after 10 and you see it everywhere

@@mogrampro8395 Lol, you really think there aren't any black markets?

Fun fact: The prisoners food budget is actually higher than the students food budget.

So that's what prevent people from commiting crime again, not being able to leave whenever they want

Sweden seems to have a society that actually cares for people.

@@realdragonpunishment does nothing why do you think we stopped punishing students or children who made mistakes because it does nothing

He was in jail (häkte) not prison which is worse. It’s so bad in there people hang themselves but they cover it up from the news most of the time

Christoffer Also our jails have 1 suicide attempt every week which is a lot for our small country. But no it’s not that bad it’s pretty nice in there maybe you have been in There that’s how you know it’s not that bad?

Häktet is still really mild compared to american prisons. It is only temporary to hold a prisoner somewhere while people are figuring out what to do with them. Rarily for a very long time.

@Helios Sphere So how can you be sure?

@Helios Sphere You made a strong accussation but with no actual facts though so its hard to take your word into consideration. Have a source?

What’s his channel?

korfer kommenterer du på alle videoene dems som om d e viktig å være korrekt?

@@ralrem4005 han er en bedreviter

Unless you want to make crime your career, then go to the US. :p

You’re forgetting something, if you do it on a remote island, you can’t get a penalty.

Ace Clover what?

@@JamesTrifolium ?

A LOT of people has reasoned like that in the past ~twenty years...

You miss the nicest thing girls

Also a lot less likely to get homeless in sweden since it's a social welfare state, like most of europe to some degree.

@@ammarif618 the fact that you don't need to wear inmate clothing is amazing

@@ravenwaffle7574 I love only girls so I can't live in the prison without talking to them.

Nearly impossible to be homeless in Scandinavia.

Rea, Stop spreading falsehood.

Portugal doesn't have cartels literally working outside their borders, don't even compare, your countries are the ones that make the narcos rich

@@TylerSolvestri No, the U.S is.

All drugs should be illegal

@@caiden5855 Even the medicines that can cure you? And btw, all bad drugs are already illegal. But people still make them to make money from addicts.

Scandinavia is honestly an amazing place to live (says the humble Danish person writing this)

The only thing is that it’s realy cold

@@tijn0770 That is not a negative for me. I shovel snow in shorts.

Mikkel Ørsted Kirkeby yes as long as you guys keep your population under 5 million mostly composed of white people right? And having an army smaller than an American division

infinity jauriac What will having a large military do? It’s useful in wartime, not very use on everyday situations

He deserved it. Should've been locked up for a year minimum

factsDon't CareAboutYourFeelings But the other person got no charges and he was obviously the attacker.

@@kasperknutsen8283 nah bruh you gon have to hold this L.

Ja det kan hända

@@kasperknutsen8283 Your feelings have overcome your facts xD

If you are alowd to have a pc Then sign me up time to do some bad stuff 😏

The amd tech bear sometimes you can play ps4

Gustav Gustavsson people That killed someone or tried to don’t have it

Do we have solitary in Sweden!?!

@Gustav Gustavsson nej, detta systemet gör att fångar rehabiliteras och dem blir ju straffade eftersom att de inte är fria

Same with Finnish prison

Yea

Basically scandinavian prisons

Is Germany similar?

True

@Antonishere 07 thats cool

Antonishere 07 👌har alltid undrat hur det är att jobba som en fängelse vakt

Cole d walker samma här

Sup knallare

Jag är bor i Sverige

if u werent dumb u would have known i suggested this video in the first place

oh wait a second i just searched ASAP rocky and im sorry that i said that

and yes im swedish

@GamerEdgar7 _Facepalm_

@GamerEdgar7 -facepalm- FacePunch

r/woooosh

@@Misquif -Facepalm- -FacePunch- _Facenuke_

@Oderless Sum65372 -FacePalm- -FacePunch- -FaceNuke- FaceBomb

Nice

GET IN THE BOAT!

Meow

Your name makes this even funnier. Btw, Pewdiepie doesn't live in Sweden anymore. *sad noises*

@@yee7849 Woof

No I think that just makes them insane...

thats pretty torturous

Yeah I would Define that as torture! Minecraft and Pewdiepie are Beyond boring.

That's torture

Who would you guys suggest watching?

Right? And people want murderers and stuff to live in a comfortable place

Treat me like a bad guy and I'll become a bad guy.

Act like a animal, you get treated like one🤷🏽‍♂️

@@Just._in and why shouldn't animals be treated like us?

@@Cod4Wii Megamind

They do that in America too, I prefer Swedish cops over American cops any day tbh

it's not a competition. If there are people struggling on another country, it's a sad thing. Remember. The saying isn't "treat sweden as a human", it's "treat humans like humans".

Ew

I think you mean the dark knight rises but no one escaped from a mental hospital

In Sweden prison food is Better than school food.

You should, swedens prison system is great, the only downside is rapists also barely get any prison time when in fact they should just be killed right away to prevent them causing more harm in the future.

Well you shouldnt truth be told.

@@gustavusadolphus4103 and should you be proud about the U.S?

säker broder

Are you serious? Should we seriously be proud about taking more care of our prisoners than our elders? Of Course those who has done horrible things should be punished.

That's just cruel. To reduce a human to such peasantry.

Jag vet dom får tilokmed hälsosammare mat än oss i skolan oh wait I forgot that basically no one will understand me so this is an translation. I know right they even get healthier food than us in school!

Osinacho GAMER jag vet, det suger

@@Nereka123 imagen liking xgayx🏳️‍🌈🤡

Osinacho GAMER skulle inte säga hälsosammare, men definitivt godare, Skolmat suger!

Norway is great actually :)

@@VoJonnyJoJo Yes

@Elis Gustafsson nah

@@MiniMoa1926 ye denmark and norway have been pals throughout most of history so i kinda just instantly like people if they Norwegian

For sweden not really. Focus is rehabilitation, not punishment. That's the whole point of the video.

@@Pyriold Indeed. Imagine watching this entire video and coming away thinking Swedish prisons are all about punishment, what kind of idiot do you have to be for this to happen?

Robix Use IMAGINATION plz dont

Jarl, jag gillar ditt namn.

Yes it does look at stats

😂

@Joel Jeppsson r/woooooosh

@@rabiamalik3296 u dont think you know what that means

@P G earth

@Joel Jeppsson nah it's reverse. Summer is terrible here and temperature goes up to 40°

grumpiesttitan79 eeehh, maybe one or two years ago that was the case with summers here yes, but nowadays the temp reached max 30 degrees. (And I live in the hottest part of Sweden may I add. Skåne.)

Even in Russian prison all classes of prisoners are entitled to extended visits with families. Something that is virtually extinct in America.

@P G It should get easier to visit Russia after the coronavirus ends. They want to entice tourists by making the visa process easier, because now their tourist industry has collapsed.

You're in the gulag fight to earn your freedom

@Zupr 1975 sama här

It's not hard for a country to be better than america.

@@Srinathji_Das exactly

Yeah, especially that we can't take care of our elders and focus more on giving more care to people who has ruined lives of others than we focus on people who has helped society.

Everytime i tell People im Swedish They want to know what ice cream is in Swedish for some reason? And then They say our airports are Nice.

@@Srinathji_Das are you high

Your comment made me realize something. I was kinda thinking after watching this video that something was off, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Now I know. It's the "humane treatment = materially comfort" thing. I mean, those prisons are materially better equipped than probably 80% of the houses of free people in Brazil, or most of the world. And we all know (or at least should) that this doesn't happen because you guys deserves it better. It's simply because of power. Colonialism. Imperialism. Capitalism. Acumulation. Concentration of wealth. We're all human beings, animals born on planet Earth. Why do you guys have all the comfort in the world and other countries don't? Is it because we are lazy? Dumb? Of course not. It's history. It was a choice. We build societies that way. So anyway, what I'm trying to say is, maybe materially the prisons in Sweden simply match the way that people live in there, so for you guys it's kinda normal, but seeing it from Brazil (and dude, I'm a middle-to-high class young white girl in the second richest state of my country, which is the biggest in south america... so there's a looooooooot of people 'below" me) this is just unfair. Not to the sweden, but to humanity living in other countries. I think we as humanity passed the age of thinking nationally. Seriously. I think that we should enter an age of global responsability. Just like it is completely unfair that rich people in US lown mansions, big multinationals corporations, and basically invest on anything they want and guides world market to their will, while poor people, specially blacks, deals with gang, violence, drugs, prison, etc., it is unfair that there are countries where prisons have a fully equipped kitchen when 60% of people in Brazil right now (actual data) has to choose what meal they're gonna have (breakfast, lunch OR dinner). If you guys have the spare money, you should stop creating more and more and more and more needs. Cause this is an infinite road to take. If you search for more needs, guess what? You're gonna find it. So we all have to ask ourselves when is it enough. When are we gonna say "alright, so I have home, food, shower, security. I'm good. Let's help other people now". So when is it going to be enough for "lucky" countries who acumulated wealth over the exploitation of the rest of the world? When will you stop and say "alright, I think overall our people are doing ok, now I can start reaching people from other countries and start to give it back". And I think this specially for countries with a history of colonialism, such as Portugal, Spain, England, Germany, etc. They have been able to grow and be rich on the sake of enslaving our people. Cause not just the consequences of this persists till this day, they actually continuously perpetrate what is now called neocolonialism, or imperialism, in various ways. Just to give an example, the STATE of Norway bought a brazilian public mining company because our State needed to pay debts. Every so called "3rd world country" (a name to make us believe that we're actually inferior, and just didn't work hard enough to be alongside the "1st world") knows public debt is a way to maintain us poor, selling our companies and letting you guys exploit us. This is not new, this known by anyone who has spent 30 minutes researching about it on google. And I'm a social scientist - so I know a little bit deeper than that. Anyway. I just think treating like a human being shouldn't be equal as giving rich-country-material-comfort. I think it would be an awesome lesson to teach prisoners: how to live with less material things, to focus on building connections and good relations, as opposed to throwing them money. It would build awareness in Sweden. On how you do not need more stuff. You don't. You really don't.

Shut up and watch the video

Hey at least you’re not American here the military is where almost all are money goes

It will probably start in smaller or blue states, then VERY slowly trickle over to red states

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@@TheInfographicsShow congrats❤️💥

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Nej nej nej nej nej de är bra

😂

Hello I am from Sweden. I am friends with People all around the world. I have no Idea where you’re from but almost every person im friends with knows Someone Thats from America, UK etc.

and Nordic, which is broader than just Scandinavia ;)

PERKELE SUOMI SAATAANA!!!!!!! Hej jag äter köttbullar och potatismos

Kööööööööttbullar

Kööööööötbullaaar

@@vallejarenskog2764 PANBIIIIIIIIIIFF

Meh, köttbullar är fan asäckliga

He also said prisons has closed down because lack of need. But it is correct fewer people are in prison now than 10 years ago.

Meh den sista utvägen grejen suger för de är fan många som inte åker in pågrund av det men som borde göra det. Typ som våldtäktsmän och annat

Put every crime on the news.

karlspel wait till world war three

Kenneth Plunkett they really arent

cjut

Lol

Eller alternativt, för att ifall de åker fast, vilket är nästan garanterat, så förlängs bara straffet och sverige är ett litet land med liten befolkning. Vad skulle du välja? Stanna på en plats där du inte bestämmer över dig själv men får tak över huvudet, mat, utbildning och sjukvård eller rymma vilket resulterar i antingen åka fast eller jobba nonstop 24/7 bara för att inte åka fast i ett land där allt drivs av byråkrati och folkbokföring, alltså hemlöshet och fattigdom tills du dör eller åker in på sjukhus där du omedelbart kommer bli identifierad.

@@maltegodkas4931 Straffet förlängs inte i Sverige vid rymmning. Det är inte olagligt att rymma. Men när dom fångar dig igen så räknas inte tiden du var ute som en "avbetalning" på din tid (såklart).

@@TesterPresent Ja, såklart ditt straff inte förlängs på det officiella viset men lycka till med nästa ansökan till villkorligt ifall du rymmer.

Its called the commisary

Yes, that was in norway

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