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  "textContent": "\n\n**Norway has luxurious prisons. That might not be as stupid as it sounds.**\n\n_For citations, turn on CC. Sources listed below ↓_\n—\nPatreon: https://spectacles.link/patreon\nMerch: https://spectacles.link/shop\nDiscord: https://spectacles.link/discord\n—\n**ABOUT US**\n\nSpectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world.\n—\n**SOURCES**\n\n✱. Sources on average sentence lengths in America are very challenging to find, mostly because the US prison system is so diffuse. The average federal sentence is about 50 months, so significantly longer, but this number is distorted by the typically more severe nature of federal crimes and sentences. 32 months is based on all my research and reading from many sources. It is probably an underestimate. The same disclaimer about diffuse data applies to all other statistics about American prisons. This is itself an indictment of American prisons. We cannot fix what we cannot understand.\n\nA. Are Høidal and Nina Hanssen. _The Norwegian Prison System_. Taylor & Francis, 2022.\n\nB. Kristian Mjåland. “Er Det Mer Kriminalitet Nå Enn Før?” fvn.no, May 22, 2025. https://www.fvn.no/mening/kronikk/i/mP2E2v/store-samfunnsendringer-og-stabile-kriminalitetsmoenstre.\n\nC. Storting, Justis- og politidepartmentet. “St. Meld. 104: Om Kriminalpolitikken.,” 1978. https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Stortingsforhandlinger/Lesevisning/?p=1977-78&paid=3&wid=f&psid=DIVL1002&pgid=f_0605.\n\nD. 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Seena Fazel, Taanvi Ramesh, and Keith Hawton. “Suicide in Prisons: An International Study of Prevalence and Contributory Factors.” _The Lancet Psychiatry_ 4, no. 12 (December 2017): 946–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(17)30430-3.\n\nJ. Richard Orange. “EXPLAINED: How Different Is the Norwegian Prison System Really?” The Local Norway, December 13, 2023. https://www.thelocal.no/20231213/explained-how-different-is-the-norwegian-prison-system-really.\n\nK. Hannan Amnad. “Foreign Prisoners: Findings of a Study in Foreign National Only Prisons in Norway and the Netherlands - CEP Probation.” CEP Probation, March 14, 2016. https://www.cep-probation.org/foreign-prisoners-findings-of-a-study-in-foreign-national-only-prisons-in-norway-and-the-netherlands/#_ftnref5.\n\nL. Åsne Seierstad and Sarah Death. _One of Us : The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway_. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.\n\nM. 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Macrotrends. “Norway Crime Rate & Statistics 1990-2024.” Macrotrends.net, 2024. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/NOR/norway/crime-rate-statistics.\n\nS. Nation Master. “Norway vs United States: Crime Facts and Stats.” Nationmaster.com, 2019. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Norway/United-States/Crime.\n\nT. Liz Benecchi. “Recidivism Imprisons American Progress.” Harvard Political Review, August 8, 2021. https://harvardpolitics.com/recidivism-american-progress/.\n\nU. Wendy Sawyer. “How Much Do Incarcerated People Earn in Each State?” Prison Policy Initiative, April 10, 2017. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/.\n—\nSelect imagery/video supplied by Getty Images\nIncludes Music by Tom Fox",
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