As it turns out, this is more like a halfway house. Prisoners usually begin their term in a prison more like one we’d typically recognize – bars on the windows, locked in their cells. But the emphasis there is on successful reintegration into society.
As their sentence progresses, with good behavior, they can move into a facility more like this, where their freedoms are still restricted, but they can do things like network with people outside of prison, search for employment, cook and clean and look after themselves, and begin making plans for their reintegration into society.
As a result, Norway has one of the lowest rates of recidisvism. 20% as opposed to America’s 76%.
It seems like a shocking idea to us because of where and how we live, but apparently, Norwegians are addressing the real problem. When you take people who can’t function well in society, and then…help them do that?…they….do. Without the crime-ing.
Turns out treating people like human beings makes them more likely to act like human beings….
But won’t that incentivize some people to go back there since they get treated so well and get a nice room versus the streets?
If you read the post above, it says Norway’s recidivism rate – that is, the rate of released criminals who go on to be arrested again – is 20% versus 76% in the United States, so for the most part, no.
Isn’t that white-lined black cross on a red field flag a Nazi flag? Are we going to talk about how wonderful it is a Nazi gets a nice halfway house?
Mahu is the hawaiian word for people who embody both male and female spirit
PSA: The Hawai’ian people actually prefer the term “māhūlani” which is a lot nicer and a term of endearment. “lani” is the Hawai’ian word for heaven so by saying māhūlani you are calling the person a gift from the heavens. Thank you so much! ^_^
AO3 updated their filters and I’m so shook???
I love this so fucking much, you have no idea. Thank you, AO3. This made my day way better, and my life so much easier.
Also two notes: This is not completely rolled out to all logged in users yet, but almost. If you are logged in and don’t see the new filters yet, you’ll probably see it in the next day or so. After that it will become active for logged out users, so if you don’t have an account and use the site logged out, you’ll probably see it a couple days later.
And, on a purely personal note, to anyone complaining that a) this doesn’t do exactly what they want, or b) that it took too long, I want you to know that this took literal YEARS for our coding, design, and testing volunteers, who were also keeping the site running, and also ARE VOLUNTEERS. People have worked amazingly hard in their spare time, for free, to make this happen, so don’t be ungrateful little goblins.
AO3 filtering options have been updated, and so far I love the new version! 😀
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