Comment by defrost

You're replying to a six day old comment about the entire US prison system which is flawed on many many levels.

For future reference a good line of exploration is:

    Denmark's recidivism rate is about 27 percent, roughly half the rate of the U.S., which ranges from 49 percent to 80 percent depending on the crime.

which raises many questions; how does this vary by country and what are the reasons?

The US prison system has a big issue with not being a simple punishment for a crime, it's very much a destruction of a persons life for the accusation of crime, once marked as a "former convict" a person in the US has difficulty regaining employment which leads to few options otherthan more crime.