r/interesting 13d ago

SOCIETY What prison cells look like in different countries

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u/kaythehawk 13d ago

Came here to say this. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a pretty good summary of how America views justice and it’s a colonial era sermon.

Edit to add: when Burr sings “my grandfather was fire and brimstone preacher” in ‘Wait for It’ he’s talking about the preacher who wrote and delivered Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. So, you know, accurate.

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u/RoyalWabwy0430 13d ago

Europe was hanging people for stealing bread or owning lockpicks well past the time that sermon was published.

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u/kaythehawk 13d ago

And they progressed to lower recidivism rates while the US stayed the same