{"id":1170,"date":"2014-12-05T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:29:17","slug":"prison-is-not-for-punishment-in-sweden-we-get-people-into-better-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2014\/12\/05\/prison-is-not-for-punishment-in-sweden-we-get-people-into-better-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Prison is Not for Punishment in Sweden. We Get People into Better Shape&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u201cOur role is not to punish. The punishment is the prison sentence: they have been deprived of their freedom. The punishment is that they are with us,\u201d says Nils \u00d6berg, director-general of Sweden\u2019s prison and probation service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United States prison system is widely regarded as broken. Prisons were supposed to &#8220;rehabilitate&#8221; offenders who have wronged society by punishing them with a prison sentence.\u00a0Unfortunately, the United States prison system has failed to rehabilitate thus producing high\u00a0recidivism rates and overall crime. In Sweden, they are testing a new approach to crime.\u00a0Oberg, the director-general, believes in addressing the inmate&#8217;s needs in order for he or she to correct the behavior that led them to prison in the first place. Sweden&#8217;s prison rates are significantly lower after they implemented this approach. They&#8217;ve also been fortunate enough to actually close prisons because of the lowered crime rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur role is not to punish. The punishment is the prison sentence: they have been deprived of their freedom. The punishment is that they are with us,\u201d says Nils \u00d6berg, director-general of Sweden\u2019s prison and probation service. The United States prison system is widely regarded as broken. Prisons were supposed to &#8220;rehabilitate&#8221; offenders who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,21,25,7,8,14,3,31,4,32,74],"tags":[16,46,102,37,38,71,47,50,41,67,18,29,60,61,73,19,30,103,54],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corrections","category-federal-corrections","category-federal-courts","category-international","category-legislation","category-national","category-prison-conditions","category-prison-reform","category-publications-and-advocacy","category-recidivism","category-reentry-programs","tag-community","tag-decisions","tag-federal-courts","tag-harvard","tag-harvard-prison-legal-assistance-project","tag-incarceration-rate","tag-justice","tag-plap","tag-poverty","tag-prison","tag-prison-design","tag-prison-news","tag-prison-policy","tag-prison-reform-2","tag-prisoners","tag-recidivism-rates","tag-reduce-inmates","tag-sweden","tag-unemployment","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}