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Finland Corrections
Finland being one of the best countries in corrections today, wasn't always the case. According to Rae Ellen Bichell who wrote an article for Public Radio International on Finland prisons states, “A few decades ago, Finland had one of the highest rates of imprisonment in Europe. Then, in the 1960s, researchers across the Nordic countries started investigating how much punishment really helps reduce crime.” This research shows how Finland got it handles on corrections today.

Finland and all the Nordic countries were facing a huge problems in the 1970s, this being overcrowding. There solution to this was a giant prison reform. Finland wanted to one, reduce the number of people sent to prisons. Two, if they were sent, make sure they didn't stay that long and three, do it as cheap as possible. With these goals in hand a new kind of system was made. This new system gave prisoners a maximum sentence of only nineteen years and also gave prisoners more rights. The system focused more on rehabilitation and preparing the prisoners for life after prison.

With this new prisons system implemented by 1991 the problem of overcrowding had decreased dramatically. However, there was other problems rising in the world of corrections. That problem was drugs, Finland pressed to control drugs in prisons. With this happening Finland reconstituted its constitution to make it more easy to find drug help. Along with the reform on drugs they also looked at the death penalty, in the reform the law that was made stated “no one shall be sentenced to death, tortured or otherwise treated in a manner violating human dignity (Lappi-Seppälä).” This was in section 22 of the Finnish constitution.

By the year 2001 Finland had a very clear and cutting-edge approach to prison and corrections. The new constitution stated a very clear sense of what incarceration should look like. In addition Finland implemented a new goal of incarceration, that being to increase the skills and preparedness for a life after prison. This meaning, helping them with the adjustment back to society. A huge part was also to prevent recidivism. A major goal was also set on helping these prisoners not extend their sentence by breaking any laws while incarcerated. With all this being said, Finland prisons started to slowly become very different from what we see in the Western world.

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 Whispe ring  02:19, 10 January 2018 (UTC)