Karianne Jackson was working for the North Dakota prison system in 2015 when a trip to Norway changed her life. There, she saw a prison with no bars and no uniformed guards. Instead, prisoners lived in small cottages with common areas, private bedrooms, even kitchens with real cups, real dishes, and real knives. And she started thinking: What if I could make the US prison system a bit more like that?
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Further reading:
Jessica Benko in the New York Times on the "radical humaneness" of Norway's Halden Prison
Dashka Slater in Mother Jones on Karianne Jackson's "Norway experiment" in North Dakota
Vox’s German Lopez explains mass incarceration in the United States
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