Finland's Unconventional Solution To The Broken Prison System 

Unlike the US, Finland has avoided the for-profit prison system trap. Allowing people to get a job and reintegrate before they're released should make a huge difference. In the US, released prisoners are pretty much dumped on the street. If they have no family to go back to, they have a good chance of ending up homeless and jobless. But businesses likes repeat customers.

Imagine a government built around being uplifting and caring.

There is a less restricted prison in Nevis. It’s for the well behaved and for those with minor charges

You are doing a better job than most news outlets in the world.

(5:00) I like this idea. Being moved to a low security prison sounds like a good thing to put on a prisoners resume. It shows that the prisoner learned his lesson and is trying to go straight.

i think it also has something to do with culture. I dont think it'll work in other countries, even with the same conditions

This is how the government should work

You said this only applied to 30% of all prisoners. Now show us the other 70.

There's a Swedish documentary where US prison employees builds a ward inspired by Nordic prisons.

Malaysia recidivism rate is less than 15%!

May be the Scandinabian people are just way ahead in social life.

As mentioned in the video, this is good for trustworthy prisoners, but what about the horrendous serial killers, etc., who love and want to do terrible things...?...Using AI would only make it more possible to do more terrible things...There are so many like that in the US and many other countries, really hardcore criminals...It might be better for them to do labor jobs, less dangerous...Maybe Finland doesn't have as many horrendous criminals...Most prisoners who have done really atrocious things, might benefit from really harsh punishments for as long as necessary so they learn about repercussions...Even then, some won't be able to be rehabilitated from mental illness and very strong criminal patterns in their consciousness where they can't see beyond being a bad person, however, if they can, they should learn to do good things, working in labor doing good, learning to do good deeds and be helpful...and then if they succeed at that, maybe expand out to do less laborious stuff...Just a guess, but the truly mentally ill ones may not be able to do much of anything, or even understand right from wrong...They all should be taught right from wrong...However, it doesn't mean certain people won't still want to do bad things after all that, but many will want to get better, probably...i don't know if anyone really truly wants to do bad things in their soul, but some people seem to want to...i think if they could experience being a healthy, compassionate, kind soul with a beautiful heart, i don't see how anyone would choose evil...

What a wonderful concept. Rehabilitation for offenders, not pure punishment.

I could see this work in smaller countries never in America. Also American company have a business with the government by housing them in their own prisons.

it works good in Finland because the population is homogenous. It wont work in US 'cause US is too diverse. Image treating serials killers, child molesters..and so on like this.

Wow

For more serious crimes such as robbery, sexual offense, violence and homicide, prisons work more of a protection for our society than merely punishment for their crimes. Assuming such serious crimes occur more frequently in other countries than in the Nordic ones (which I believe they do), I just don’t see the Nordic system would change the game in a big way. I think it’s a good additional system to adapt for minor crimes, but I don’t think the key to reduce crimes lies on prison improvements in most other countries.

But you didn’t talk about what crimes these people did… rapist and murderers can’t get this treatment

All the Finnish prisons except open prisons have walls, guard, and cells.

Wow. I actually gave a comment to Dom to try and not perpetuate so called doom scrolling with his content. To try and not sell negativety. I had no clue just how good it sells.. This video right here I saw as Dom giving it a try. Probably not because of my comment he didn't even see, just because it is known issue that started way back when mass media of radio, television and newspapers were the only options.. Reporting on tragedies made for greater viewership then reporting on anything possitive or constructive.. 6.5k views versus on avarage few 100k views on negative subjects on other countries presented in interesting way.. We trully are doomed. Our own biasis will be the end of anything good. Decent mental health, possitive news, even our civilisation as a whole. Fuck.

Because there from there own culture ,not like in North America where international criminals run the jail .

I feel like this works so much in finland because of the lack of diversity in the population. This would not work in america.

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you never said what % of Finland prisoners reoffend. this video was just you making speculation. And i already know that Scandinavia has a different approach because i saw a video about prisons in Norway. So video told me nothing new and was a waste of my time. i am unsubscribing.

Nordic countries are just worse at catching people the second time around with no police anywhere, that's why the stats look better.

Prison for punishment. This is not punishment. This is not fair to victims.