CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS April 5, 2015 17:41:00
Featured recently in the "new york times" magazine. the longest possible sentence there is 21 years. except for committing crimes against humanity. even the notorious gunman who killed 77 people in 2011 just got 21 years. in fact offenders are sentenced in norway to around eight months on average. more important, the focus there is less on punishment and more on getting inmates back in to society. "life inside prisons will resemble life outside as much as possible. and offenders shall be placed in the lowest possible security regime," says norway's correctional service. "because a sentence sho...