The Norwegian prison system is highly effective at rehabilitating offenders, with the country achieving one of the lowest recidivism rates globally.
Norwegian Correctional Services employ a prison system that is quite different to a lot of countries, emphasizing the future reintegration of prisoners and emphasising measures to ensure a smooth transition back into society.
In Norway, according to the University College of Norwegian Correctional Services, recidivism rates were down to 15 percent of offenders committing a new offence within two years of release in 2017. Comparatively, in Australia, during 2020-21, 45.1 percent of offenders who left the system in 2018-19 returned to jail within two years of release, and in the U.S. 44 percent of offenders were arrested within a year of release in 2018….