Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners

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."

can they

[Anonymous Coward]

be outsourced? This is EXACTLY what USA need.

Hey California, I have a solution for you

[Anonymous Coward]

California has a problem with overcrowded prisons. Sweden has a problem with prisons being unoccupied.

I sense an opportunity for a good capitalist.

this is not good news

[Laxori666]

Just think of how many jobs will be lost by the closing of these prisons! Surely there must be something we can do to prevent this calamity from continuing. Maybe the government should subsidize crime to encourage more criminals so that these jobs are safe. Or make a bunch of things illegal that aren't, currently, to increase the incarceration rate. Cause more jobs = better economy as we all know.

Repulsive! Government Waste!

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

This is the sort of thing you see in countries deeply afflicted with the European-socialist culture of dependency and waste. First, the state wastefully builds a bunch of white-elephant infrastructure projects, rather than embarking on an Efficient private contract; because it's somebody else's money they are spending.

Then, when those projects stand empty, the state just expects somebody to give them customers (we worked so hard, don't we deserve to succeed?) and then throws up its hands in limp-wristed failure and admits defeat, rather than going out there and making customers through good, old-fashioned, hard work and brutal overcriminalization of all sorts of petty offenses.

This, my friends, is what a sick society looks like. I bet they try to hide their shame by cooking up a bunch of fancy statistics about how good their human development index rankings, life expectancy, and similar ivory-tower nonsense are; but you can't hide moral sickness this profound.

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[EdIII]

Swedish Prison?

That sounds better at this point than trying to survive in the US economy with fuckwits running the show....

(I mean all of them, not one side)

Re:Start jailing therapists

[_merlin]

Yes, we should start jailing therapists. Their extortionate "professional rates" suck the lifeblood out of the economy. People would be better off spending this money on hookers and gigolos who give guaranteed relief. Oh wait, not "therapists" but "the rapists". Well, if people were more inclined to hire hookers, that problem could be solved, too!

This is a bad idea

[SlovakWakko]

Don't mess with the equilibrium. Less criminals means less need for cops means more unemplyed cops who usually go into organized crime means more criminals means you need to hire more cops means less crime means... - OMG, it's just a way to get the whole population into organized crime!

Re:Start jailing the rapists

[whistlingtony]

It is your fault for quoting Newsmax. :D

Seriously, look a the link itself. "europe-immigration-muslim-obama". I mean.... come on... sheesh.

Sure

[mrwolf007]

But they just dont have enough space for all the NSA employees.

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[Neil Boekend]

Just label 'em "bad" and let $deity sort it out.

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[crutchy]

sudo rm politicians

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[Noughmad]

sudo killall politicians

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[WWJohnBrowningDo]

Noughmad is not in the plutocrat file. This incident will be reported.

Re: Hey California, I have a solution for you

[i ate my neighbour]

It's fine as long as they have stormtrooper accuracy.

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[isorox]

sudo killall politicians

You realise GCHQ monitor slashdot?

sudo praise all politicians and their masters

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[Anonymous Coward]

However, in Norway the population is, by and large, loyal to the government, believe it or not. In fact, that is how it is in most of Europe, AFAIK

Where is the BULLSHIT mod option when you need it!?

While this MAY be true for Norway it is certainly not true for most of Europe.
Voter participation is on an all time low, demonstrations against the "ruling class" aka politicians get more violent, corruption is everywhere and people know it.

The only reason that most appear complicit is because overall people are still living comfortably over here.

Re:It will work

[maxwell demon]

Looking at the URLs, I strongly doubt that most of those are unbiased sources.

Re: Hey California, I have a solution for you

[Joce640k]

Why would a country full of blondes and saunas have any suicide rate at all...?

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[Joce640k]

While this MAY be true for Norway it is certainly not true for most of Europe.

Yep.

Here in Spain we'd be cutting their heads off it it were legal and they weren't heavily armed.

Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you

[I'm New Around Here]

Well, I haven't seen a dupe article this week, so I can't be on the original Slashdot.

Re:can they

[TheRaven64]

They may not still be criminals, but there's a pretty high chance that they'll still be Americans...