The Norway Prison System

society. Some choose Rehabilitation and others opt to concentrate solely on Punishment. The Norway prison system has changed their focus retribution to rehabilitation. As we begin to look at the Model of Norway we will lead off to quickly detect that it is widely different when compared to the United States prison system that concentrates most of their energy on Punishment. Rehabilitation has a long haul impact on wrongdoers since it would decrease the crime rates. Additionally, rehabilitation changes the criminal conduct, by providing hope and humane treatment to help the incarcerated have a smooth transition back to the real world. The United States focuses most of its energy on punishment and that's but one piece that leads to crime detection

prisons have violated human rights such as when looking at the The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted (Slyke 1,728). “Excessive force” by prison guards constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. In a very important Supreme Court case called Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1 (1992), the Court found a violation of the Eighth Amendment when prison guards used violence towards a prisoner such as punching, leaving him with minor injury. The Court held that a guard’s use of force violates the Eighth Amendment when it is not applied “in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline” but instead is used to “maliciously and sadistically cause harm” (Slyke 1,733). As the court positioned “because society expects harsh incarceration conditions and less than unqualified access to health care for inmates, only extreme deprivations in these cases constitute cruel and unusual punishment” (Slyke 1,7334). Since there is no clear definition of what constitutes as cruel and unusual punishment, especially in a prison system where punishment is one of their forms of correction it needs to be locked into a case by case to determine if human rights have been

This is due to their methods of focusing on Rehabilitation meaning restorative justice. Even as seen in a video where James Conway, A retired superintendent of a maximum security US prison visit one of the prisons Norway was shocked to see all the freedom Norway gives their prisoners from making their own food, playing outside, and providing a clean and safe room and private bathroom (The Norden). This is definitely a different approach than U.S. prison systems. Here Guards aren’t brutally beating the prisoners for correction or for no explicit reason they are eating meals and playing with the inmates. The Norway prison guards also aren't armed in order to not cause any intimidation. The Norway’s goal is to keep everyone in the prison safe and prepare them for the real world. Their philosophies that if they are in an environment that is considered “normal” then they will act normal once released. Since Norway prisons have no death penalty since it was abolished in 1979, every prisoner is guaranteed to get out one day. Norway's maximum prison is up to twenty-one years, but of course, although the new Penal Code provides for a 30-year maximum sentence for crimes related to genocide, crimes against humanity or some other war crimes. The average sentence is around eight months. So, although the maximum sentence in Norway is twenty-one years