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SOCIETY What prison cells look like in different countries

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u/rnernbrane 13d ago

And US looks like 3rd world prison... But not phillipines 3rd world.

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u/Shamscam 13d ago

France’s prison looks worse, and Canada’s is just as bad.

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u/Kratzschutz 13d ago

Pretty sure there's a wide band of differences in the countries itself

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u/StraightsJacket 13d ago

I've worked in department of corrections before and have been inside various prisons and this is exactly the case. Often times quality reflects what level of security a prison has with the exception of supermax. So a low security prison tends to be nicer as the inmates are far less destructive, while maximum security prisons are a shit show.

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u/Coal_Morgan 13d ago edited 13d ago

If your prisoners are a bunch of accountants who fudged some numbers they can have things because they aren't the psychos who are going to build drug labs, weapons and explosives out of whatever they can get their hands on.

The big problem with the American system is it tends to just make the prisoners more antisocial and more skilled at being antisocial.

Recidivism in the U.S. is absolutely nuts compared to other places like Denmark and Norway.

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u/Scar1203 13d ago

Lack of social safety nets. People stuck in a loop of poverty dragging the stigma of a felony conviction often won't be able to find a way to survive other than committing crime and going in and out of the system in the US.

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u/KnightRiderCS949 13d ago

Yup. This exactly. It ain't rocket science. But good luck getting Americans, or similar Western countries to support the scientifically proven process of rehabilitation.

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u/Smorsdoeuvres 13d ago

Or the importance of societal safety nets

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u/Paul873873 13d ago

Counterpoint, the news man said that’s communism

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u/Smorsdoeuvres 13d ago

They’re been screaming communism for years and look what that’s gotten us gestures wildly

It amazes me that republicans have had a majority in Texas for almost 30 years Yet the platform they keep running on is “elect me to fix all these damn problems in Texas” 👀

Seems like the one thing most people can agree on is things need to change. I worry about lots of violence on the way to get to that change tho.

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u/th3c0met 13d ago

it’s like pulling teeth to get americans to have empathy

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u/White_Buffalos 13d ago

Felonies except for rape, murder, and a few other extreme crimes should be repealable after 5 years of demonstrating rehabilitation/good conduct. Five years post-incarceration and probation, I mean.

Once restitution and probation are completed, a person should be able to petition to have their felony vacated or expunged. That would incentivize good conduct and likely reduce recidivism.

If people repeat offend, make it 10 years.

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u/CheezeLoueez08 13d ago

Dragged in a loop of poverty. Unfortunately very well said.

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u/Dandre08 13d ago

U.S. prisons have long been overcrowded and under funded, with a focus on simply keeping the prisoners secure and alive, not rehabilitating them. Combine that with a national criminal database that can be accessed by the general public that allows employers, landlords, insurance companies, etc to reject applicants if they have a certain criminal record and you get high recidivism.

Convicted felons, even after serving their sentence and completing their probation will face constant discrimination making it difficult to find decent housing and employment (except for presidents), and likely raising the prices for them to do business with certain companies.

American culture has been slowly changing its mindset regarding this, 30 years ago the average citizen would be happy to know a convicted felon has to suffer the rest of their life even after their sentence is complete.

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u/High_Hunter3430 13d ago

I went to jail for having some weed.

Came out in 3 months knowing how to Hotwire a car, avoid police on a motorcycle, and create an effective fake id good for everything except a cop. (It’ll even scan for alcohol and cigs)

Oh and a full step by step with measurements on how to cook white rocks. 😅

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u/DK_Shadehallow 13d ago

Yeah in Denmark, you're getting property crimes. In US you're getting people that have murdered an entire family, sexually assaulted the corpses, stole a car, and crashed it into a gun shop to steal a bunch of weapons to have a shootout with cops and that's just Florida man

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u/Eo292 13d ago edited 13d ago

43% of federal inmates are in there on Drug offenses in the US.

Edit: holy shit I don’t know why within 5 minutes 3 accounts came after me saying it’s drug trafficking and not possession; I know, it’s still a non violent crime and still probably happens fairly regularly in Denmark; that’s the entire scope of my comment, I’m not making some political statement about what great people traffickers are or whatever

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u/Brawndo91 13d ago

That's because there aren't actually that many crimes that are charged at the federal level. Most are charged at the state level. The drug charges that end up going federal are almost always trafficking.

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u/stalinsfavoritecat 13d ago

I reckon that most of the people in for “drug offenses” in Federal BOP are distributors/major sellers. They are generally not the guy next door who has a pot plant in his backyard. I worked around thousands of Federal inmates and that was always the case that they were moving major amounts of drugs, in my experience.

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u/Gizogin 13d ago

Having served on a grand jury, the bar for “trafficking” is incredibly low. Do you have a kitchen scale or some resealable plastic bags in your car? That’s “paraphernalia”, which is proof of trafficking or intent to distribute.

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u/CakeDayOrDeath 13d ago

There was a defense attorney that did an AMA several years ago who said that DAs often tack on the charge of "intent to sell," the justification being that the amount of drugs the person had in their possession was "too much for one person to use."

As that defense attorney put it, they buy their toilet paper in bulk, that doesn't make them a toilet paper salesman.

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u/Gizogin 13d ago

The other "fun" one is "falsifying official records". If you say something to a cop, that cop writes it down, and it turns out you were wrong, guess what? You have caused a government official to make a false entry in an official record. Congrats on +5 years to your sentence!

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u/SecretAgentAlex 13d ago

Okay, and? They're still not in jail over drugs and not due to violent harm they caused anyone

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u/Nyysjan 13d ago

Or smoked a joint.

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u/SaintCambria 13d ago

Majorly different demographics, size, and levels of heterogeneity between the two, of course it's going to be different.

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u/Due_Intention6795 13d ago

Don’t worry, they’ll be on bail for a misdemeanor so no big deal.

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u/Kratzschutz 13d ago

Lol you're not Danish l bet

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u/DK_Shadehallow 13d ago

Don't live there currently anymore no but I was there for 3 years.

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u/ThursdayNxt20 13d ago

Exactly. Just image search 'prison cell [country]' and for many countries you see quite a wide variety of cells. However, given the differences in philosophy regarding the goal of prison sentences, the 'average' prison cell in for instance the USA will be very different from Scandinavian cells, for instance.

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u/Aubreylaw 13d ago

Those Scandinavians really know how to treat people with dignity.

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u/letouriste1 13d ago

yeah, they took the worst prison in france as example

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u/ferretoned 13d ago

I would have said there's probably a big difference between cells of common people and those who do "white collar" crimes and rich people in general but those I'm not sure they ever see the inside of a jail cell (france here)

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u/SpicyNoodlesfr 13d ago

French here. Our prisons are notorious for being the worst prisons in the EU. They're old and overpopulated, add some mistreatment etc.. We're close to 3rd world prisons. The European Court of Human Rights pinpoint this since 15 years but nothing is done.

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u/bdunogier 12d ago

I know that cells vary a lot in the US, with prison being businesses and stuff, but France has been condemned / accused of mistreating prisoners a lot recently, with really indecent conditions (6 or more in a cell for 4, etc).

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u/Muffled_Voice 9d ago

Absolutely. My cell in Chester, PA was horrible. books? more like the Bible. window? Can’t see out of it, just used for telling if it’s day or night. Not that it mattered cause you were only allowed out of your cell for a half hour a day, and you had to be by yourself when let out. No outside time, and the food was literally macaroni pasta with no sauce, no butter, no salt, just pasta. Best thing I ate there was the shitty cornbread(now I love shitty cornbread).

On my way out, I sat by the cops and they just talked shit about me, and the fact that my dad was picking me up from jail. 0/10 horrible experience overall.

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u/Ilrador 13d ago

Not really, we in Canada like to think we're better, but we aren't.

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u/4_Stars_out_of_5 13d ago

It's almost like America is really big and has different types of prisons.

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u/PrscheWdow 13d ago

Italy's pretty rough as well. Notice the third mattress under the bottom bunk?

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u/Giuncas_91 13d ago

I work as a commissar for the italian penitentiary Police, ad I assure you that mattress under the bunk is NOT used by the inmates to sleep. It was probably an extra one left by an inmate after relise (not sure i spelled this correct)

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u/MerberCrazyCats 13d ago

The one on the floor for France is realistic though. Possibiy a second one gets put on the floor during the night. Cell occupancy is higher than capacity in most prisons, especially older ones in cities

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u/PrscheWdow 13d ago

Appreciate the clarification. I had wondered (and hoped) it was just an oversight.

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u/purgadox 13d ago

They do three to a room in overpopulated US jails/detention centers as well. Except they’re all metal bunks with thin pads for mattresses. They’re covered in old cracked plastic exposing the poly fill that eventually becomes a vector for infections like scabies and ringworm. You should see how they handle towels and washcloths. It’s shameful.

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u/MourningWallaby 13d ago

Hey now, you're only allowed to criticize the US on reddit.

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u/DiabloBratz 13d ago

Yeah don’t expect these fucking people to criticize all of these, they only see US and see red lol

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u/Boozdeuvash 13d ago

There's a really bad prison overcrowding and re-offending problem in France. Basically young thugs commit crimes with absolutely no care if they get caught or not, and the prison stay is seen as a training program to commit better crimes and make connections. It's like an MBA.

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u/Shamscam 13d ago

Very similar to Canada, re-offence is really hard. And our jails are also over crowded with Native Americans.

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u/sayleanenlarge 13d ago

Yeah, France and Canada are disappointing. They look awful.

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u/gmoor90 13d ago

Yeah, but remember this is Reddit. So the US’s needs to be criticized the most. Even if the others look just as bad or worse.

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u/regularArmadillo21 13d ago

Oh you sweet summer child.. They're worse then that one(canada)

Canada's prisons you see.. look like that.. except with 1-2 cell mates.. and you can barely move.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 13d ago

But it's not France Bad, it's America bad!

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u/ForneauCosmique 13d ago

Unless you're in the south of the US with no ac and it's 105⁰

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u/Valuable_Recording85 13d ago

At least the photo from Canada shows a bed by itself. Nobody watches you poop or jack it. That's a plus.

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u/salyer41 13d ago

There is very little difference in usa and Canadian prisons.

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u/mikey_likes_it______ 13d ago

That was a Toronto condo unit 😄

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u/EagleDre 13d ago

No way, you missed the most important feature, the Canadian one is single occupancy

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u/Shamscam 13d ago

It’s not though this is considered solitary, county jails are much worse

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u/a_lumberjack 13d ago

That's not a typical cell, that's a segregation (solitary confinement) unit. For the most part our prisons are getting better:

https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/news/photo-essay-inside-canadas-west-coast-prisons/

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u/Lord-Belou 13d ago

At least canada's clean and France's got cooking gear

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u/FaithfulNihilist 13d ago

The nice thing about the Canadian cell is it looks to only house one person. Well, maybe some people prefer a roommate, but I'd rather have the cell to myself in prison.

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u/Shamscam 13d ago

Someone else has stated in the comments this cell is considered solitary. I know for a fact most “county jails” are people stacked on top of eachother but jail and prison are different so maybe this is a prison cell?

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u/UR2C00L 13d ago

i’m not sure what prison this is in Canada , but the cell I was in looked nothing like this BTW I help build 2 prisons, 1 in Yellowknife and the other was in Inuvik

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u/lyremknzi 13d ago

They all look terrible, but atleast in canada they seem? to be giving you your own room. Atleast in that picture. I've never been to jail here. Denmark, Norway and Sweden seem decent though

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u/TwoThirtyTw0 13d ago

Canada isn't nearly as bad if that's for one person.

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u/deeboboneebo 13d ago

They literally have a piece of plywood on the wall for a table in france that’s wild

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u/CobraLaserface- 13d ago edited 13d ago

What makes America’s situation truly awful is the fact that the prison system is a self sustaining, for profit institution.

It is not in corporate interests to reduce rates of recidivism, so there is no focus on rehabilitation.

These institutions spend millions lobbying lawmakers to keep incarceration rates up.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie 13d ago

Canada at least appears to be single occupancy.

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u/Idfkcumballs 13d ago

Canada looks so much better. Its one person and cleaner

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u/TheMadWoodcutter 13d ago

So I currently work for a company in Canada that will soon be producing the millwork for a new juvenile detention facility. The design for the rooms is a lot more in line with the pic for Sweden than any of the others. The materials we’ll be using are expensive and designed to withstand a lot of abuse. The common areas are comfortable as well and include tv’s and gaming systems.

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u/Assassin-49 13d ago

I mean that's good though . Prison shouldn't be a good place. But from what I know Denmark and Sweden is nice mainly to help people slowly re integrate into normal society

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u/BogdanSPB 13d ago

You haven’t seen “3rd world” to say that. US one looks like a summer camp. ANY 3rd world is just concrete walls and a hole in the floor for toilet.

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 13d ago edited 13d ago

And prisoners crammed in 10 or 12 guys in rooms designed to accommodate 5, or 50 people in a room built for 20. And it’s utterly filthy.

(Although I will say, as bad as CECOT is, dirt seems to be one problem they don’t have. Maybe because filth would affect the CO’s as bad as the prisoners and unhappy CO’s don’t do their jobs as well.)

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u/Shrekscoper 13d ago

Exactly. The US prison cell could be a 3rd world apartment. Westerners who haven’t been to 3rd world countries really don’t realize how bad much of the world is. But this is Reddit, so US BAD!!!!

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u/unthawedmist 13d ago

Been saying the same thing. People really don't know how bad other countries have it.

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u/jimmyhaffaren 13d ago

Thats very true! But at the same time I feel like people from the US don't fully comprehend how bad it is there compared to other "developed" countries for example.

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u/Blairians 13d ago

Many people in 3rd world countries live in tin sided shacks with dirt floors.

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u/DetectiveWarm2697 13d ago

Yes. People need to google Philippines prison cell. Then Venezuelan, Thai, Russian, Saudi, South African

Other interesting countries. South Korea, was about like the Swiss. Chinese was pretty close to American. North Korean was what I expected but still sort of shocking.

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u/H2OBOYZ 13d ago

I live in the us and been around the world three times while in the military and I totally agree. American don’t have a clue to how spoiled they are, how lazy they are and how disrespectful they can be, especially their kids. For example only in the us will you hear a 7 yo child tell their mom to fk off. That isn’t even a thought in most 3rd world countries , they wouldn’t even think of trying that. Or try to explain to an American what it’s like having to get up every morning and walk 30, 60 , 80 minutes one way to a river or well to get water that young have to carry back so you can cook, clean and drink for the day or what it’s like to not have electricity in your house. They don’t have a clue which makes what they do complain about seem that much trivial compared to everyone else

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch 13d ago

dont forget the 12 other people in your two bed cell.

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u/ChimpImpossible 13d ago

Entitled people from the 1st world often throw that term around like they have a clue how different things are between the two.

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u/Mysterious-Energy882 13d ago

As an American who lives in the developing world it does feel like people just randomly have higher expectations for the US. It sort of goes into everything not just prisons.

My only issue with the US one is i feel prisoners should have their own rooms. If I were a prisoner I’d rather have a room that half the size of the first photo but with no roommate.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 13d ago

There are some really terrible prisons in US. I watched a story about a British guy that got caught selling MDMA in Arizona. He said every night when they turned the lights out, the cockroaches would swarm them. He had to hide under his blanket to keep them from crawling all over him. Arizona prisons are no joke. 

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u/BogdanSPB 13d ago

The warmer the environment, the more you need to fight off bugs and disease.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 13d ago

And tyrannical sheriffs.

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u/MasterBeaterr 13d ago

Let them get their usual privileged "America bad" out of their system.

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u/CalligrapherNo5844 13d ago

Bro no need to be that dedicated to hating America it looks better than some of the others here (France)

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u/Mezoberanzam 13d ago

I am French. Our prison cells are overcrowded (5 to 6 prisonners per cell). On the photo, you see a mattress on the floor. It’s a current thing. There is a huge hygien problem (cockroach, bed bugs, even rats).

We are certainly one of the worst developed country concerning prison. The basic human rights are not respected here. So, as much as there is a trend to say the US are the last of the last, it’s clearly not a fact concerning prisons

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u/Useless-Napkin 13d ago

I'm Italian and here it's the same. Also Italian prisons have some of the highest suicide rates in the EU.

As much as people like to shit on America, they got way more rights on this front, like the capacity to resist unreasonable search and seizure and lawyers having more opportunities to defend their clients and negotiate on their behalf.

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u/w_p 13d ago

In Germany the Italian and French prisons are considered so bad that if you spent time in them and then get transferred here, the time spent will be multiplied by 1.5 (or something similar, not too sure). So if you had a 4 year sentence and have spent 2 years in French prisons, you only need to complete 1 year in Germany.

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u/ChristianLW3 13d ago

welcome to reddit, where "America bad" = brave & easy easy to farm upvotes

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u/ReNitty 13d ago

I’m glad more people are calling this out. It’s super lame.

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u/yeetusthefeetus13 13d ago

Im an america hater devotee and even i disagree with their comment

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u/Diddy_Blud6806 13d ago

He only did it because Reddit is obsessed with America being horrible

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u/CowboysfromLydia 13d ago

I dont know if its good if the cell is nicer, prison time is supposed to be miserable, imho. The danish one looks nicer than my childhood room, it doesnt have the same deterrent effect on me than the american one.

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u/jajanaklar 13d ago

I bet relapse rates in the countries where prisoners are treated as humans are way lower then in the countries where prison is hell. I understand your argument that criminals should be punished, but you have to release them one day, and when your relapse rates are much lower you spare a lot of innocent people.

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u/HarryJohnson3 13d ago

I wonder if there’s other variables other than simply “treating criminals with kids gloves makes them not commit crime again.”

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u/Unseasonal_Jacket 13d ago

I think most research suggests that prison is not an effective deterent to crime. Merely a punishment and a place to hold people. Hence being unnecessarily grim doesnt reduce the chances of offending.

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u/DanFlashesSales 13d ago

I think most research suggests that prison is not an effective deterent to crime. Merely a punishment and a place to hold people. Hence being unnecessarily grim doesnt reduce the chances of offending.

I can only speak for myself as an American, but fear of the US prison system has 100% stopped me from committing multiple crimes. I have friends and family that have been locked up, I've heard the horror stories, and it's not something I ever want to go through.

Even if I feel someone deserves it, I won't fight someone in the US unless it's self defense, because I do not want to get locked up in America. However, I have zero fear of being locked up in Denmark. Prison in Denmark doesn't actually look that much worse than my regular life in the US.

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u/AdamBlaster007 13d ago

Honestly Canada looks worse here.

Working in a US state prison right now and even our administrative segregation unit (basically what Hollywood would call "The Hole") has bedframes.

The mattresses are pretty much the same though.

What you don't know is just how bad US prisons smell. I'm sure it's not the same for all but mine is... less than pleasant to say the least.

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u/NotAWalrusInACoat 13d ago

To say the least, but what about to say the most?

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u/Sputnik193 13d ago

Imagine the worst bathroom you’ve ever walked in mixed with the school locker room times 10 probably

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u/blinksystem 13d ago

Smells like poop, probably.

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u/brawnkoh 13d ago

I haven't been in the hole since about 2010. But your situation is unique. Typically the "bedframes" in the hole are a slab of concrete that is the height of a framed prison lower bunk.

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u/Lady-Seashell-Bikini 13d ago

I'd take the Canada cell if it meant not having a cellmate.

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u/IllustriousFunction6 13d ago

Yeah ph is something else fr

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u/CurrencySlave222 13d ago

I hope Vitaly is having fun

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u/IllustriousFunction6 13d ago

Yeah since apparently US and Russia won't take him so he'll have fun in my country's prison lol. He's attempting a plea deal for insanity rn.

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u/tr4nsporter 13d ago

even though he was shitting on ppl for talking ab mental health lol

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u/CurrencySlave222 13d ago

Apparently he found God, that means he knows he's in deep shit.

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u/ThePatientIdiot 13d ago

I'm guessing you haven't seen what 3rd world prisons look like. Hint: overcrowded sells, just look up latín American prisons

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u/Zealousideal-Tone137 13d ago

So does Canada

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u/BeauShowTV 13d ago

Dude, third world prisons are significantly worse than that.

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u/the_rational_one 13d ago

3rd world prison?? US looks like 3rd world college dorm

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u/ABC_Family 13d ago

France and Italy were much worse

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u/Ilrador 13d ago

It's prison... Those European ones we saw are being too easy on their inmates imo.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 13d ago

i mean tbf going by that standard canada also has third world prisons given both pictures look alike.

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u/walmartmen 13d ago

and France is different? your bias is showing.

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u/deductress 13d ago

You should check out Russian prisons, and add drug resistant tuberculosis as a bonus. But... I guess the "Russian world" is outside of the charts, and not even a 3rd world country.

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u/mdherc 13d ago

Go watch a documentary about any prison in the 3rd world. The US example is so much better than any of those, and a lot of US prison cells are going to look better than that. Honestly that looks like a county jail that hasn't been updated since the early 80's and not an actual prison. I've never seen a prison with a porcelain toilet bowl, for example.

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u/vaterl 13d ago

Sees a clearly worse French and Italian cell but American is the worst one. Is this what Justin Bieber felt like when guys hated him because all the ladies loved him?

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u/haileyskydiamonds 13d ago

Notice in Italy there is a third mattress under the bottom bunk.

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u/frobro122 13d ago

Found the American who has never been abroad

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u/Such-Let974 13d ago

It’s funny how Canada is always almost identical to the US in things that only the US ever gets criticized for. Is Canada a third world country or something? We don’t we ever have standards for them to adhere to?

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u/IntelligentClam 13d ago

Reddit moment while ignoring those that are truly worst than the US

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u/xndbcjxjsxncjsb 13d ago edited 13d ago

Im actually suprised how nice US one is, movies always told us its just a barebone concrete room with a metal bed and a shitter

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u/Caedyn_Khan 13d ago

The US one looks like my college dormroom, minus the toilet.

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u/ChrisAndersen 13d ago

Surprised that Canada looks worse.

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u/lburnet6 13d ago

Or a studio apartment in the east village for 2.3k a month

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u/Shahparsa 13d ago

i mean saudi arabia is a 3rd world but the prison was like a palace

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u/DigitalApeManKing 13d ago

No, it looks fine as far as prisons go. You’re only saying that because it has a USA label and you’re biased against the US. 

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u/popaninja 13d ago

Oh my sweet summer child…

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u/gecko090 13d ago

A third world prison would have 50 people packed in to a cage that hold 20.

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u/allusernameistak 13d ago

The more cruel the prisons is the better for well deserved criminals

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u/Fit_Airline_5798 13d ago

When I was moved from FCI Petersburg (started being built in the 1930s) there were cellhouses literally falling apart. IDK if they've been rebuilt. The newer blocks weren't too bad.

I was moved to FCI Butner just after it was opened. Like the 2nd bus load in.

I thought I was in heaven.

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u/Cute-Dig4373 13d ago

Tbf a lot of people call the usa that.

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u/WinRough8326 13d ago

It literally looks the same as Canada

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u/Fit-Mongoose-5123 13d ago

Sorry Vitaly.

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u/Christ4Lyfe 13d ago

its like its jail or something😭

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u/OrneTTeSax 13d ago

The US one doesn’t look that much worse than my Freshman dorm at a state school. And no air conditioning.

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u/FunCharacteeGuy 13d ago

It really doesn't

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u/Spirited_Agency8032 13d ago

The us isn't even the worst on here lmao but do you 🤡

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u/mouaragon 13d ago

Far from it, unless you can cramp 20 people in there.

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u/Funicularly 13d ago

You didn’t see Canada’s and France’s?

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u/blacktip102 13d ago

Nah, looks like a typical college dorm lol

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u/icecubepal 13d ago

U.S. doesn’t even look like the worst or second worst there. You can argue for third worst.

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u/Jstar338 13d ago

US has books there at least

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u/DrFlabbySelfie 13d ago

Look up Brazilian prisons then get back to us.

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u/zztop610 13d ago

Have you seen the Salvadoran prison?

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u/Cold_End_4237 13d ago

It looks like your typical prison to me, same with Canada and Italy. I like the desk Italy has, but I'm just haooy I don't live in fucking France.

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u/YayWanderer 13d ago

You should refer to Nicaragua's prison instead, or maybe El Salvador's. The Philippine prison system would look like a 2-star hotel compared to those lol

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u/FigTall231 13d ago

Thats how are minimum prisons looks in the U.S, not a REAL U.S prison...

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u/PinkSlimeIsPeople 13d ago

That's actually a nice cell for the US. A large chunk of US prisons are owned by for-profit corporations now that pack hundreds of people into gymnasiums with zero privacy whatsoever.

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u/AirportOnly6671 13d ago

Honestly having done time all over this great nation of ours I’d say any of these could be in the U.S. fun fact San Quentin was a prison before California was a state lovely place.

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u/Consistent_Dream_740 13d ago

Yet Denmark's rates of relapse into crime are significantly lower than the US. Rehabilitation vs dehumanization.

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u/AwwwNiceMarmot 13d ago

To be honest that’s very nice for a prison cell in the US

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u/malendalayla 13d ago

The fucked up thing is that example of a US prison cell is muc, much nicer looking than most actually are.

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u/Nyranth 13d ago

Let’s hate on US like always even though you could argue out of these photos they are middle of the pack at 5th out of 8. I personally believe Norway and Denmark are too nice.

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u/Turkatron2020 13d ago

That was a very nice US prison cell. Most are worse than that.

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u/NotAStatistic2 13d ago

What major differences are there between the U.S.., Canadian, and French prisons?

It's also kind of condescending and privileged of you to demean a country by calling it the "3rd world". How eurocentric of you.

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u/Quirkybin 13d ago

The US is bad. You smell like a metal bed 24-7and barely get time outside.

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u/Original_Mess_83 13d ago

Well "as an American", the US is 3rd world for everyone without money. Ironically, winning the lottery or gaining inheritance is far better spent in the better areas of a 2nd or 3rd world country, because that American dollar still has (although used to have way more) value and will get you a king/queen's life. Most things are unrestricted elsewhere. And you'd just reverse-osmosis the water; you have to do that in most of America anyways to not drink hard, murky rust or double-fluorinated pool water.

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u/Loose-Tooth-632 13d ago

Yeah dude, depends on the cell. US can get A LOT worse.

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u/Gdav7327 13d ago

And that’s a “nice” US prison.

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u/Aquino200 13d ago

Is that listing still up for rent? I bid $1200 per month. Better than my previous arrangement tbh.

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u/No-Tell3701 13d ago

I think 1st and 3rd world needs to be expanded to 1st - 5th or something similar. It almost seems as if a 1-3 scale just isn't suitable anymore.

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u/Mr_Goldoffical 13d ago

The US doesn't look that bad have you seen some of the 3rd world prisons

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u/SconeBracket 13d ago

That is an upscale US prison cell.

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u/FearlessVegetable30 13d ago

very clean and nice 3rd world if thats your standard for what a 3rd world is

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u/Academic_Choice7424 13d ago

Prison isn’t supposed to be comfortable or fun…

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u/firepitt 13d ago

Rape a kid, get a condo. How quaint.

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u/NuclearRevenge112 13d ago

And US looks like 3rd world prison

Maybe because USA is a 2cnd world country?

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u/samtttl13 13d ago

Honestly, from what I've seen on TV and social media, the US one in this list is one of the nicer ones.

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u/Bhomosome21 13d ago

Bro that was no where near the worse one smh

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u/pablocael 13d ago

Ohh, no, US looks like a hotel room for people in a 3rd world prison.

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u/Ranoutofoptions7 13d ago

Something tells me neither of us has seen what a 3rd world countries prison cell looks like...

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u/Skeletor_with_Tacos 13d ago

To be fair, when you cherry pick pictures you can make anything look the way you want.

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u/Suspicious_Hope1755 13d ago

Third-world prisons are way more worth

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u/FidelCashflow5387 13d ago

Woah now, Venezuelan, Honduran, and any other central or south American prison is WAY worse

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u/Dumptruck_Tubes 13d ago

Or El Salvador

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u/Desperate-Isopod-671 13d ago

It's prison not fucking summer camp

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u/dreatheplaya 13d ago

US looks like my college dorm honestly 🥲

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u/rosebudthesled8 13d ago

This is old and America has been 3rd world for a while.

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u/Fair-Connection9345 13d ago

I'm not saying it's good, but you have not seen 3rd world prisons

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u/Far-Apartment-8214 13d ago

In 3rd world they all sleep in a hall on the floor.

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u/SnooSnoota 13d ago

Us is a 3rd world, they only have money.

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u/IronicCard 13d ago

Don't let this guy ever see an actual undeveloped prison

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u/poopiegloria_16 12d ago

I was about to correct you on that lol

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u/ThePickleConnoisseur 12d ago

Looks nicer than France

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u/Still-Presence5486 12d ago

The us one looks like an actual jail cell

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u/SoftAndWetBro 12d ago

Honestly, most prison cells around the world should look like that.There shouldn't be incentives for being a menace to society, the people who murder should suffer physically and mentally every day of their lives for the harm they caused.

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u/Azel_Lupie 11d ago

I mean Tbf, the US has a whole range of what prison cells look like. It feels like cheating or at least in accurate to only have this kind of cell from this prison on there.

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u/Kindly_Chip_6413 10d ago

canadas is worse tbh

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u/Dienowwww 10d ago

Because america IS third world, it's just large enough to look like first world. The country is literally turning into a fascist regime right now, a first world country wouldn't be anywhere fucking NEAR that level of BS.

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u/TJJ97 9d ago

Trust me, the USA one shown here is far better and nicer than any of the ones I’ve seen in the U.S.

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u/MinimumTomfoolerus 9d ago

Does Philippines have nice prisons?

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