Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners

Posted by Unknown on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:00PM from the literal-land-of-the-free dept.

rtoz writes "Sweden is taking steps to close many prisons due to lack of prisoners. This year alone, four prisons and a detention center got closed in Sweden. The percentage of the population in Sweden prison is significantly lower than in most other countries. ... Though the Swedish Government is taking steps to close the prisons, the crime rate in Sweden has increased slightly. It seems they are planning to take steps for preventing crime rather than focusing on jailing people involved in criminal activities."

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Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you by should_be_linear · 2013-11-11 20:28 · Score: 1, Troll

It made some sense to compare civilian to government guns until like 1930. Governments have all those airplanes, hellicopters, NSAs, prisons, so best thing you can do with bare gun against government is to shoot yourself in the head.

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