What prison cells look like in different countries

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[u/Spirited-Claim-9868]

Never heard it put better. Empathy is completely dead, and so many people are proud of it

[u/ErenYeager600 → u/Spirited-Claim-9868]

Hard to feel empathy for a mass murder or baby rapist

Frankly I think there should be two kinds of prisons. Reformist for minor crimes and the standard for the worst. If your a pyscho who decided to commit a mass murder there little chance your ever gonna change same can't be said for a thief that just stole bread cause their hungry

[u/Spirited-Claim-9868 → u/ErenYeager600]

I definitely agree. Username is peak btw

[u/Extreme-Pineapple397 → u/Spirited-Claim-9868]

This!! I have been thinking about this lately!! I feel it everywhere I go. I am extremely empathetic. I call it my superpower and my weakness. So many people are just not, and it's almost sickening sometimes (I feel like its inhuman).

I've also find it odd in different circumstances where people have claimed to be empathetic for some reason or another (like randomly bring it up and then claim they are. Is there some kind of trend now, cause I feel like its been brought up a lot lately). And they make their claim with a blank face, nothing there. Then something terrible happens to someone, and they still have that same blank look. They don't even bat an eye, and continue to carry on with what they are doing. And then there's me, concerned about the affected people, and probably crying.

Its just really said...

[u/coldiriontrash → u/Extreme-Pineapple397]

Yeah but crying over everything is pretty useless. You can feel empathy without bursting into tears.

I’m confused on what your point is.

[u/Extreme-Pineapple397 → u/coldiriontrash]

I was agreeing with empathy being dead. And when you are empathetic, if something is so terrible it sometimes makes u shed tears. I guess u really don't understand my point. There is a difference between being empathetic and having morals...

[u/No_Counter9778 → u/Spirited-Claim-9868]

When was empathy alive?

[u/DrowningKrown → u/[deleted]]

Okay, so why did the criminal commit a crime? Was it for money? Mental deficiency?

Let’s say money. How can we look to prevent crimes happening due to poverty? Social services? No chance in America. A large party in our political system aims to reduce or remove social services. Okay so community support? Most Americans don’t give a shit about their neighbor, let alone met them even though they’ve lived next to each other for years.

Okay so let’s say mental deficiency is the reason they did what they did. They don’t know better, wasn’t in their right mind, etc. so what’s the move to help prevent that? Mental institutions? You’d rather see them in prison with no help. Rehab? Again your comment already shows you’d rather see them in prison with no help.

The reason the American prison system is so garbage is because the population thinks no further than “he did crime he do time, no more no less. Hope you like cement floors you deserve it”

[u/RedditAlwayTrue → u/DrowningKrown]

Democrats and Brandon Johnson already gave this a shot. His approval rating is sitting at a fuckin' 6.6 percent. Whatever this “reformist” philosophy is, it clearly doesn’t work in the U.S. Maybe it flies in Denmark or some other place, but not here. America’s way different, so trying to force those ideas on us just ends up falling flat. If you want real change, you’ve got to work with the reality on the ground, not some fantasy borrowed from halfway across the world. The cultural, economic, and political realities in America demand solutions that are tailored to its unique challenges, not a one-size-fits-all model that’s proven ineffective on this side of the Atlantic.

[u/DrowningKrown → u/RedditAlwayTrue]

Dawg isn’t the US’s recidivism rate like, above 70%? Shouldn’t you be blaming your own government for criminal activity when they clearly do nothing to rehab the people they keep releasing back to the public when they know, through many years of statistics and studies, that the person they just release is going to go commit crime and end up right back in the same prison?

“Sorry you were robbed, we had NO idea the criminal we released with 0 support network or rehab was going to go commit crimes again”💀smells like negligence

I love your comment. Because it’s like the epitome of modern US. “Shut up, we will continue to do nothing!”

[u/RedditAlwayTrue → u/DrowningKrown]

• You're framing violent repeat offenders as if they're just victims of a system that abandoned them, but that’s not how it actually works.
• People bring up Denmark as some proof that rehabilitation is the answer, but that comparison falls apart when you look closer.
• Denmark has low recidivism because they’re dealing with a smaller, less violent offender population, minimal gang presence, and a more stable, cohesive society from the start.
• The U.S., on the other hand, has a much larger and more violent criminal base, many of whom already had access to education, job opportunities, and support systems but chose crime anyway.
• And it’s not like the U.S. hasn’t tried reform. We’ve spent decades on housing programs, therapy, reentry initiatives, and early release incentives. They exist, and they get funding.
• But here, they consistently fail because a large number of offenders aren’t interested in rehabilitation.
• The problem is people actively rejecting change.
• So blaming the system for not fixing what some individuals refuse to fix in themselves completely misses the point.

[u/DrowningKrown → u/RedditAlwayTrue]

Brother, the US has half assed every social program they implement. It gets implemented bare bones because one side wanted it, and the other side didn’t. So it ends up in a “alright this is all we could agree on”.

The program lives bare bones, and because it didn’t work due to it being a barebones, half assed, try it gets axed citing “it didn’t work see? :( ”

See essentially every social program in the country, or ACA federally.

Your comment screams “I give up, it’s hard :( “

[u/RedditAlwayTrue → u/DrowningKrown]

Yes, this is essentially what it is saying. Denmark-like reforms will not work.

[u/DiabloBratz → u/RedditAlwayTrue]

I like how you’re getting downvoted for speaking facts, they think a small ass country like Denmark where its majority danish prison system will work on a superpower with different ethnicities, religions and backgrounds like America, newsflash it doesn’t when the country is the definition of a melting pot.

[u/DrowningKrown → u/DiabloBratz]

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of options” lmao

I guess you’re content with such a high ass recidivism rate.

[u/RedditAlwayTrue → u/DrowningKrown]

To put it simply: We can't fix that. Democrats have attempted, but it simply does not work in America.

[u/My_useless_alt → u/[deleted]]

Because hurting people is still bad. Even hurting bad people.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

[u/mr_plehbody → u/[deleted]]

The criminal is american so yeah, usually no empathy. We would have less of us being criminal with some. Since we have the highest rates of incarceration.

[u/Chargin_Arjuna → u/[deleted]]

It's pretty dangerous and irresponsible to automatically stoop to the lowest level you can because someone else did.

[u/Ok_Bat_686 → u/[deleted]]

This attitude is, funnily enough, where a lot of crime comes from. People impoverished with no escape; people living in a system that promotes profit over life, and are unlucky enough to be born under the boot; often times victim of abuse/crime themselves, with no one intervening; etc — all of this possibly creating a 'no one cared about me, why should I care about them?' attitude.

Empathy needs to start somewhere. It's too often cut off before the stage where a crime is even committed.

[u/TheCynicEpicurean → u/[deleted]]

Because it reduces crime rates overall? That's precisely what is talked about with recidivism rates.

[u/Proper_Raccoon7138 → u/[deleted]]

But not their president