Luigi Mangione's fellow inmates: Free him, 'conditions suck'

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56. The question was if our prison system creates violent criminals

I think we can agree that the US has far more 1st time violent criminals per capita then Norway does. I think we can agree that the US has far more people per capita living in dire poverty then Norway does. I think we can agree that the drug problem in the US is far greater than it is in Norway. I think we can agree that Norway has a much better social safety net then we do. I think we can agree that Norway has far fewer mass shooters and serial killers per capita then the US does.

Your source didn't differentiate between violent and non violent offenders. The source I provided stated that nonviolent offenders were far less likely to return to prison then violent ones. Ergo, our prison system doesn't turn nonviolent offenders into violent ones. Those who are violent were violent to begin with. Prison didn't turn them into that.

Norway, by any metric, is generally a peaceful and law abiding nation. Their prison system didn't make them that way. They can have the prison system they have because their population is generally peaceful to begin with as a full quarter of prisoners in Norway are foreign born.

".Approximately 26% of inmates are foreign-born."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_Norway