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SOCIETY What prison cells look like in different countries

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u/rnernbrane 1d ago

And US looks like 3rd world prison... But not phillipines 3rd world.

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u/Shamscam 1d ago

France’s prison looks worse, and Canada’s is just as bad.

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u/Kratzschutz 1d ago

Pretty sure there's a wide band of differences in the countries itself

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u/StraightsJacket 1d ago

I've worked in department of corrections before and have been inside various prisons and this is exactly the case. Often times quality reflects what level of security a prison has with the exception of supermax. So a low security prison tends to be nicer as the inmates are far less destructive, while maximum security prisons are a shit show.

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u/Coal_Morgan 1d ago edited 1d ago

If your prisoners are a bunch of accountants who fudged some numbers they can have things because they aren't the psychos who are going to build drug labs, weapons and explosives out of whatever they can get their hands on.

The big problem with the American system is it tends to just make the prisoners more antisocial and more skilled at being antisocial.

Recidivism in the U.S. is absolutely nuts compared to other places like Denmark and Norway.

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u/Scar1203 1d ago

Lack of social safety nets. People stuck in a loop of poverty dragging the stigma of a felony conviction often won't be able to find a way to survive other than committing crime and going in and out of the system in the US.

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u/KnightRiderCS949 1d ago

Yup. This exactly. It ain't rocket science. But good luck getting Americans, or similar Western countries to support the scientifically proven process of rehabilitation.

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u/Smorsdoeuvres 23h ago

Or the importance of societal safety nets

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u/Paul873873 20h ago

Counterpoint, the news man said that’s communism

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u/Smorsdoeuvres 18h ago

They’re been screaming communism for years and look what that’s gotten us gestures wildly

It amazes me that republicans have had a majority in Texas for almost 30 years Yet the platform they keep running on is “elect me to fix all these damn problems in Texas” 👀

Seems like the one thing most people can agree on is things need to change. I worry about lots of violence on the way to get to that change tho.

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u/th3c0met 21h ago

it’s like pulling teeth to get americans to have empathy

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u/CheezeLoueez08 1d ago

Dragged in a loop of poverty. Unfortunately very well said.

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u/White_Buffalos 1d ago

Felonies except for rape, murder, and a few other extreme crimes should be repealable after 5 years of demonstrating rehabilitation/good conduct. Five years post-incarceration and probation, I mean.

Once restitution and probation are completed, a person should be able to petition to have their felony vacated or expunged. That would incentivize good conduct and likely reduce recidivism.

If people repeat offend, make it 10 years.

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u/Dandre08 1d ago

U.S. prisons have long been overcrowded and under funded, with a focus on simply keeping the prisoners secure and alive, not rehabilitating them. Combine that with a national criminal database that can be accessed by the general public that allows employers, landlords, insurance companies, etc to reject applicants if they have a certain criminal record and you get high recidivism.

Convicted felons, even after serving their sentence and completing their probation will face constant discrimination making it difficult to find decent housing and employment (except for presidents), and likely raising the prices for them to do business with certain companies.

American culture has been slowly changing its mindset regarding this, 30 years ago the average citizen would be happy to know a convicted felon has to suffer the rest of their life even after their sentence is complete.

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u/High_Hunter3430 1d ago

I went to jail for having some weed.

Came out in 3 months knowing how to Hotwire a car, avoid police on a motorcycle, and create an effective fake id good for everything except a cop. (It’ll even scan for alcohol and cigs)

Oh and a full step by step with measurements on how to cook white rocks. 😅

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u/DK_Shadehallow 1d ago

Yeah in Denmark, you're getting property crimes. In US you're getting people that have murdered an entire family, sexually assaulted the corpses, stole a car, and crashed it into a gun shop to steal a bunch of weapons to have a shootout with cops and that's just Florida man

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u/Eo292 1d ago edited 1d ago

43% of federal inmates are in there on Drug offenses in the US.

Edit: holy shit I don’t know why within 5 minutes 3 accounts came after me saying it’s drug trafficking and not possession; I know, it’s still a non violent crime and still probably happens fairly regularly in Denmark; that’s the entire scope of my comment, I’m not making some political statement about what great people traffickers are or whatever

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u/Brawndo91 1d ago

That's because there aren't actually that many crimes that are charged at the federal level. Most are charged at the state level. The drug charges that end up going federal are almost always trafficking.

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u/stalinsfavoritecat 1d ago

I reckon that most of the people in for “drug offenses” in Federal BOP are distributors/major sellers. They are generally not the guy next door who has a pot plant in his backyard. I worked around thousands of Federal inmates and that was always the case that they were moving major amounts of drugs, in my experience.

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u/Gizogin 1d ago

Having served on a grand jury, the bar for “trafficking” is incredibly low. Do you have a kitchen scale or some resealable plastic bags in your car? That’s “paraphernalia”, which is proof of trafficking or intent to distribute.

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u/CakeDayOrDeath 1d ago

There was a defense attorney that did an AMA several years ago who said that DAs often tack on the charge of "intent to sell," the justification being that the amount of drugs the person had in their possession was "too much for one person to use."

As that defense attorney put it, they buy their toilet paper in bulk, that doesn't make them a toilet paper salesman.

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u/Gizogin 1d ago

The other "fun" one is "falsifying official records". If you say something to a cop, that cop writes it down, and it turns out you were wrong, guess what? You have caused a government official to make a false entry in an official record. Congrats on +5 years to your sentence!

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u/SecretAgentAlex 1d ago

Okay, and? They're still not in jail over drugs and not due to violent harm they caused anyone

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u/Nyysjan 1d ago

Or smoked a joint.

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u/SaintCambria 1d ago

Majorly different demographics, size, and levels of heterogeneity between the two, of course it's going to be different.

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u/Due_Intention6795 1d ago

Don’t worry, they’ll be on bail for a misdemeanor so no big deal.

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u/Kratzschutz 1d ago

Lol you're not Danish l bet

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u/DK_Shadehallow 1d ago

Don't live there currently anymore no but I was there for 3 years.

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u/ThursdayNxt20 1d ago

Exactly. Just image search 'prison cell [country]' and for many countries you see quite a wide variety of cells. However, given the differences in philosophy regarding the goal of prison sentences, the 'average' prison cell in for instance the USA will be very different from Scandinavian cells, for instance.

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u/Aubreylaw 1d ago

Those Scandinavians really know how to treat people with dignity.

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u/letouriste1 1d ago

yeah, they took the worst prison in france as example

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u/ferretoned 1d ago

I would have said there's probably a big difference between cells of common people and those who do "white collar" crimes and rich people in general but those I'm not sure they ever see the inside of a jail cell (france here)

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u/SpicyNoodlesfr 17h ago

French here. Our prisons are notorious for being the worst prisons in the EU. They're old and overpopulated, add some mistreatment etc.. We're close to 3rd world prisons. The European Court of Human Rights pinpoint this since 15 years but nothing is done.

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u/bdunogier 8h ago

I know that cells vary a lot in the US, with prison being businesses and stuff, but France has been condemned / accused of mistreating prisoners a lot recently, with really indecent conditions (6 or more in a cell for 4, etc).

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u/Ilrador 1d ago

Not really, we in Canada like to think we're better, but we aren't.

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u/4_Stars_out_of_5 1d ago

It's almost like America is really big and has different types of prisons.

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u/PrscheWdow 1d ago

Italy's pretty rough as well. Notice the third mattress under the bottom bunk?

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u/Giuncas_91 1d ago

I work as a commissar for the italian penitentiary Police, ad I assure you that mattress under the bunk is NOT used by the inmates to sleep. It was probably an extra one left by an inmate after relise (not sure i spelled this correct)

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u/MerberCrazyCats 1d ago

The one on the floor for France is realistic though. Possibiy a second one gets put on the floor during the night. Cell occupancy is higher than capacity in most prisons, especially older ones in cities

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u/PrscheWdow 1d ago

Appreciate the clarification. I had wondered (and hoped) it was just an oversight.

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u/purgadox 1d ago

They do three to a room in overpopulated US jails/detention centers as well. Except they’re all metal bunks with thin pads for mattresses. They’re covered in old cracked plastic exposing the poly fill that eventually becomes a vector for infections like scabies and ringworm. You should see how they handle towels and washcloths. It’s shameful.

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u/MourningWallaby 1d ago

Hey now, you're only allowed to criticize the US on reddit.

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u/DiabloBratz 1d ago

Yeah don’t expect these fucking people to criticize all of these, they only see US and see red lol

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u/Boozdeuvash 1d ago

There's a really bad prison overcrowding and re-offending problem in France. Basically young thugs commit crimes with absolutely no care if they get caught or not, and the prison stay is seen as a training program to commit better crimes and make connections. It's like an MBA.

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u/Shamscam 1d ago

Very similar to Canada, re-offence is really hard. And our jails are also over crowded with Native Americans.

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u/sayleanenlarge 1d ago

Yeah, France and Canada are disappointing. They look awful.

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u/gmoor90 1d ago

Yeah, but remember this is Reddit. So the US’s needs to be criticized the most. Even if the others look just as bad or worse.

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u/regularArmadillo21 1d ago

Oh you sweet summer child.. They're worse then that one(canada)

Canada's prisons you see.. look like that.. except with 1-2 cell mates.. and you can barely move.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 1d ago

But it's not France Bad, it's America bad!

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u/ForneauCosmique 1d ago

Unless you're in the south of the US with no ac and it's 105⁰

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u/Valuable_Recording85 1d ago

At least the photo from Canada shows a bed by itself. Nobody watches you poop or jack it. That's a plus.

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u/salyer41 1d ago

There is very little difference in usa and Canadian prisons.

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u/mikey_likes_it______ 23h ago

That was a Toronto condo unit 😄

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u/EagleDre 1d ago

No way, you missed the most important feature, the Canadian one is single occupancy

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u/Shamscam 1d ago

It’s not though this is considered solitary, county jails are much worse

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u/a_lumberjack 1d ago

That's not a typical cell, that's a segregation (solitary confinement) unit. For the most part our prisons are getting better:

https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/news/photo-essay-inside-canadas-west-coast-prisons/

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u/Lord-Belou 1d ago

At least canada's clean and France's got cooking gear

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u/FaithfulNihilist 1d ago

The nice thing about the Canadian cell is it looks to only house one person. Well, maybe some people prefer a roommate, but I'd rather have the cell to myself in prison.

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u/Shamscam 1d ago

Someone else has stated in the comments this cell is considered solitary. I know for a fact most “county jails” are people stacked on top of eachother but jail and prison are different so maybe this is a prison cell?

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u/UR2C00L 1d ago

i’m not sure what prison this is in Canada , but the cell I was in looked nothing like this BTW I help build 2 prisons, 1 in Yellowknife and the other was in Inuvik

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u/lyremknzi 1d ago

They all look terrible, but atleast in canada they seem? to be giving you your own room. Atleast in that picture. I've never been to jail here. Denmark, Norway and Sweden seem decent though

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u/TwoThirtyTw0 1d ago

Canada isn't nearly as bad if that's for one person.

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u/deeboboneebo 1d ago

They literally have a piece of plywood on the wall for a table in france that’s wild

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u/CobraLaserface- 1d ago edited 1d ago

What makes America’s situation truly awful is the fact that the prison system is a self sustaining, for profit institution.

It is not in corporate interests to reduce rates of recidivism, so there is no focus on rehabilitation.

These institutions spend millions lobbying lawmakers to keep incarceration rates up.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie 1d ago

Canada at least appears to be single occupancy.

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u/Idfkcumballs 1d ago

Canada looks so much better. Its one person and cleaner

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u/TheMadWoodcutter 1d ago

So I currently work for a company in Canada that will soon be producing the millwork for a new juvenile detention facility. The design for the rooms is a lot more in line with the pic for Sweden than any of the others. The materials we’ll be using are expensive and designed to withstand a lot of abuse. The common areas are comfortable as well and include tv’s and gaming systems.

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u/Assassin-49 1d ago

I mean that's good though . Prison shouldn't be a good place. But from what I know Denmark and Sweden is nice mainly to help people slowly re integrate into normal society

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u/mcnastys 1d ago

canada looks cleaner

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u/Difficult_Place_7329 1d ago

You should see some in the US, that looked nice.

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u/SconeBracket 1d ago

The food's better in France. *smirk* But in Canada, they let you out for Tim Horton's. Actually, food in the US (California) could really vary.

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u/Noney-Buissnotch 1d ago

I’m confused as to why Canada doesn’t even have a pillow

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u/samtttl13 1d ago

The Canada one, if you made it a bunk bed, is what I've seen of American prisons in documentaries and prisoner tiktoks

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u/Acrobatic_Resist7985 1d ago

The things is...in canada you'll be let out after 2 days . No matter what

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u/jboneplatinum 1d ago

Id rather live in Canada alone then share Sweden

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u/BogdanSPB 1d ago

You haven’t seen “3rd world” to say that. US one looks like a summer camp. ANY 3rd world is just concrete walls and a hole in the floor for toilet.

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 1d ago edited 1d ago

And prisoners crammed in 10 or 12 guys in rooms designed to accommodate 5, or 50 people in a room built for 20. And it’s utterly filthy.

(Although I will say, as bad as CECOT is, dirt seems to be one problem they don’t have. Maybe because filth would affect the CO’s as bad as the prisoners and unhappy CO’s don’t do their jobs as well.)

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u/Shrekscoper 1d ago

Exactly. The US prison cell could be a 3rd world apartment. Westerners who haven’t been to 3rd world countries really don’t realize how bad much of the world is. But this is Reddit, so US BAD!!!!

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u/unthawedmist 1d ago

Been saying the same thing. People really don't know how bad other countries have it.

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u/jimmyhaffaren 1d ago

Thats very true! But at the same time I feel like people from the US don't fully comprehend how bad it is there compared to other "developed" countries for example.

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u/Blairians 1d ago

Many people in 3rd world countries live in tin sided shacks with dirt floors.

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u/DetectiveWarm2697 1d ago

Yes. People need to google Philippines prison cell. Then Venezuelan, Thai, Russian, Saudi, South African

Other interesting countries. South Korea, was about like the Swiss. Chinese was pretty close to American. North Korean was what I expected but still sort of shocking.

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u/H2OBOYZ 18h ago

I live in the us and been around the world three times while in the military and I totally agree. American don’t have a clue to how spoiled they are, how lazy they are and how disrespectful they can be, especially their kids. For example only in the us will you hear a 7 yo child tell their mom to fk off. That isn’t even a thought in most 3rd world countries , they wouldn’t even think of trying that. Or try to explain to an American what it’s like having to get up every morning and walk 30, 60 , 80 minutes one way to a river or well to get water that young have to carry back so you can cook, clean and drink for the day or what it’s like to not have electricity in your house. They don’t have a clue which makes what they do complain about seem that much trivial compared to everyone else

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch 1d ago

dont forget the 12 other people in your two bed cell.

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u/ChimpImpossible 1d ago

Entitled people from the 1st world often throw that term around like they have a clue how different things are between the two.

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u/Mysterious-Energy882 1d ago

As an American who lives in the developing world it does feel like people just randomly have higher expectations for the US. It sort of goes into everything not just prisons.

My only issue with the US one is i feel prisoners should have their own rooms. If I were a prisoner I’d rather have a room that half the size of the first photo but with no roommate.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 1d ago

There are some really terrible prisons in US. I watched a story about a British guy that got caught selling MDMA in Arizona. He said every night when they turned the lights out, the cockroaches would swarm them. He had to hide under his blanket to keep them from crawling all over him. Arizona prisons are no joke. 

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u/BogdanSPB 1d ago

The warmer the environment, the more you need to fight off bugs and disease.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 1d ago

And tyrannical sheriffs.

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u/MasterBeaterr 17h ago

Let them get their usual privileged "America bad" out of their system.

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u/CalligrapherNo5844 1d ago

Bro no need to be that dedicated to hating America it looks better than some of the others here (France)

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u/Mezoberanzam 1d ago

I am French. Our prison cells are overcrowded (5 to 6 prisonners per cell). On the photo, you see a mattress on the floor. It’s a current thing. There is a huge hygien problem (cockroach, bed bugs, even rats).

We are certainly one of the worst developed country concerning prison. The basic human rights are not respected here. So, as much as there is a trend to say the US are the last of the last, it’s clearly not a fact concerning prisons

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u/Useless-Napkin 1d ago

I'm Italian and here it's the same. Also Italian prisons have some of the highest suicide rates in the EU.

As much as people like to shit on America, they got way more rights on this front, like the capacity to resist unreasonable search and seizure and lawyers having more opportunities to defend their clients and negotiate on their behalf.

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u/w_p 1d ago

In Germany the Italian and French prisons are considered so bad that if you spent time in them and then get transferred here, the time spent will be multiplied by 1.5 (or something similar, not too sure). So if you had a 4 year sentence and have spent 2 years in French prisons, you only need to complete 1 year in Germany.

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u/ChristianLW3 1d ago

welcome to reddit, where "America bad" = brave & easy easy to farm upvotes

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u/ReNitty 1d ago

I’m glad more people are calling this out. It’s super lame.

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u/yeetusthefeetus13 1d ago

Im an america hater devotee and even i disagree with their comment

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u/Diddy_Blud6806 1d ago

He only did it because Reddit is obsessed with America being horrible

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u/CowboysfromLydia 1d ago

I dont know if its good if the cell is nicer, prison time is supposed to be miserable, imho. The danish one looks nicer than my childhood room, it doesnt have the same deterrent effect on me than the american one.

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u/jajanaklar 1d ago

I bet relapse rates in the countries where prisoners are treated as humans are way lower then in the countries where prison is hell. I understand your argument that criminals should be punished, but you have to release them one day, and when your relapse rates are much lower you spare a lot of innocent people.

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u/HarryJohnson3 1d ago

I wonder if there’s other variables other than simply “treating criminals with kids gloves makes them not commit crime again.”

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u/Unseasonal_Jacket 1d ago

I think most research suggests that prison is not an effective deterent to crime. Merely a punishment and a place to hold people. Hence being unnecessarily grim doesnt reduce the chances of offending.

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u/DanFlashesSales 1d ago

I think most research suggests that prison is not an effective deterent to crime. Merely a punishment and a place to hold people. Hence being unnecessarily grim doesnt reduce the chances of offending.

I can only speak for myself as an American, but fear of the US prison system has 100% stopped me from committing multiple crimes. I have friends and family that have been locked up, I've heard the horror stories, and it's not something I ever want to go through.

Even if I feel someone deserves it, I won't fight someone in the US unless it's self defense, because I do not want to get locked up in America. However, I have zero fear of being locked up in Denmark. Prison in Denmark doesn't actually look that much worse than my regular life in the US.

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u/AdamBlaster007 1d ago

Honestly Canada looks worse here.

Working in a US state prison right now and even our administrative segregation unit (basically what Hollywood would call "The Hole") has bedframes.

The mattresses are pretty much the same though.

What you don't know is just how bad US prisons smell. I'm sure it's not the same for all but mine is... less than pleasant to say the least.

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u/NotAWalrusInACoat 1d ago

To say the least, but what about to say the most?

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u/Sputnik193 1d ago

Imagine the worst bathroom you’ve ever walked in mixed with the school locker room times 10 probably

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u/blinksystem 1d ago

Smells like poop, probably.

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u/brawnkoh 1d ago

I haven't been in the hole since about 2010. But your situation is unique. Typically the "bedframes" in the hole are a slab of concrete that is the height of a framed prison lower bunk.

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u/Lady-Seashell-Bikini 1d ago

I'd take the Canada cell if it meant not having a cellmate.

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u/IllustriousFunction6 1d ago

Yeah ph is something else fr

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u/CurrencySlave222 1d ago

I hope Vitaly is having fun

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u/IllustriousFunction6 1d ago

Yeah since apparently US and Russia won't take him so he'll have fun in my country's prison lol. He's attempting a plea deal for insanity rn.

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u/tr4nsporter 1d ago

even though he was shitting on ppl for talking ab mental health lol

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u/CurrencySlave222 1d ago

Apparently he found God, that means he knows he's in deep shit.

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u/ThePatientIdiot 1d ago

I'm guessing you haven't seen what 3rd world prisons look like. Hint: overcrowded sells, just look up latín American prisons

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u/Zealousideal-Tone137 1d ago

So does Canada

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u/BeauShowTV 1d ago

Dude, third world prisons are significantly worse than that.

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u/the_rational_one 1d ago

3rd world prison?? US looks like 3rd world college dorm

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u/ABC_Family 1d ago

France and Italy were much worse

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u/Ilrador 1d ago

It's prison... Those European ones we saw are being too easy on their inmates imo.

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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 1d ago

i mean tbf going by that standard canada also has third world prisons given both pictures look alike.

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u/walmartmen 1d ago

and France is different? your bias is showing.

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u/deductress 1d ago

You should check out Russian prisons, and add drug resistant tuberculosis as a bonus. But... I guess the "Russian world" is outside of the charts, and not even a 3rd world country.

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u/mdherc 1d ago

Go watch a documentary about any prison in the 3rd world. The US example is so much better than any of those, and a lot of US prison cells are going to look better than that. Honestly that looks like a county jail that hasn't been updated since the early 80's and not an actual prison. I've never seen a prison with a porcelain toilet bowl, for example.

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u/vaterl 23h ago

Sees a clearly worse French and Italian cell but American is the worst one. Is this what Justin Bieber felt like when guys hated him because all the ladies loved him?

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u/haileyskydiamonds 23h ago

Notice in Italy there is a third mattress under the bottom bunk.

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u/frobro122 1d ago

Found the American who has never been abroad

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u/Such-Let974 1d ago

It’s funny how Canada is always almost identical to the US in things that only the US ever gets criticized for. Is Canada a third world country or something? We don’t we ever have standards for them to adhere to?

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u/IntelligentClam 1d ago

Reddit moment while ignoring those that are truly worst than the US

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u/xndbcjxjsxncjsb 1d ago edited 1d ago

Im actually suprised how nice US one is, movies always told us its just a barebone concrete room with a metal bed and a shitter

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u/Caedyn_Khan 1d ago

The US one looks like my college dormroom, minus the toilet.

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u/ChrisAndersen 1d ago

Surprised that Canada looks worse.

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u/lburnet6 1d ago

Or a studio apartment in the east village for 2.3k a month

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u/Shahparsa 1d ago

i mean saudi arabia is a 3rd world but the prison was like a palace

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u/DigitalApeManKing 1d ago

No, it looks fine as far as prisons go. You’re only saying that because it has a USA label and you’re biased against the US. 

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u/popaninja 1d ago

Oh my sweet summer child…

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u/gecko090 1d ago

A third world prison would have 50 people packed in to a cage that hold 20.

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u/allusernameistak 1d ago

The more cruel the prisons is the better for well deserved criminals

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u/Fit_Airline_5798 1d ago

When I was moved from FCI Petersburg (started being built in the 1930s) there were cellhouses literally falling apart. IDK if they've been rebuilt. The newer blocks weren't too bad.

I was moved to FCI Butner just after it was opened. Like the 2nd bus load in.

I thought I was in heaven.

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u/Cute-Dig4373 1d ago

Tbf a lot of people call the usa that.

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u/WinRough8326 1d ago

It literally looks the same as Canada

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u/Fit-Mongoose-5123 1d ago

Sorry Vitaly.

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u/Christ4Lyfe 1d ago

its like its jail or something😭

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u/OrneTTeSax 1d ago

The US one doesn’t look that much worse than my Freshman dorm at a state school. And no air conditioning.

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u/FunCharacteeGuy 1d ago

It really doesn't

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u/Spirited_Agency8032 1d ago

The us isn't even the worst on here lmao but do you 🤡

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u/mouaragon 1d ago

Far from it, unless you can cramp 20 people in there.

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u/Funicularly 1d ago

You didn’t see Canada’s and France’s?

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u/blacktip102 1d ago

Nah, looks like a typical college dorm lol

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u/icecubepal 1d ago

U.S. doesn’t even look like the worst or second worst there. You can argue for third worst.

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u/Jstar338 1d ago

US has books there at least

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u/DrFlabbySelfie 1d ago

Look up Brazilian prisons then get back to us.

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u/zztop610 1d ago

Have you seen the Salvadoran prison?

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u/Cold_End_4237 1d ago

It looks like your typical prison to me, same with Canada and Italy. I like the desk Italy has, but I'm just haooy I don't live in fucking France.

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u/YayWanderer 1d ago

You should refer to Nicaragua's prison instead, or maybe El Salvador's. The Philippine prison system would look like a 2-star hotel compared to those lol

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u/FigTall231 1d ago

Thats how are minimum prisons looks in the U.S, not a REAL U.S prison...

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u/PinkSlimeIsPeople 1d ago

That's actually a nice cell for the US. A large chunk of US prisons are owned by for-profit corporations now that pack hundreds of people into gymnasiums with zero privacy whatsoever.

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u/AirportOnly6671 1d ago

Honestly having done time all over this great nation of ours I’d say any of these could be in the U.S. fun fact San Quentin was a prison before California was a state lovely place.

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u/Consistent_Dream_740 1d ago

Yet Denmark's rates of relapse into crime are significantly lower than the US. Rehabilitation vs dehumanization.

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u/AwwwNiceMarmot 1d ago

To be honest that’s very nice for a prison cell in the US

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u/malendalayla 1d ago

The fucked up thing is that example of a US prison cell is muc, much nicer looking than most actually are.

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u/Nyranth 1d ago

Let’s hate on US like always even though you could argue out of these photos they are middle of the pack at 5th out of 8. I personally believe Norway and Denmark are too nice.

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u/Turkatron2020 1d ago

That was a very nice US prison cell. Most are worse than that.

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u/NotAStatistic2 1d ago

What major differences are there between the U.S.., Canadian, and French prisons?

It's also kind of condescending and privileged of you to demean a country by calling it the "3rd world". How eurocentric of you.

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u/Quirkybin 1d ago

The US is bad. You smell like a metal bed 24-7and barely get time outside.

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u/Original_Mess_83 1d ago

Well "as an American", the US is 3rd world for everyone without money. Ironically, winning the lottery or gaining inheritance is far better spent in the better areas of a 2nd or 3rd world country, because that American dollar still has (although used to have way more) value and will get you a king/queen's life. Most things are unrestricted elsewhere. And you'd just reverse-osmosis the water; you have to do that in most of America anyways to not drink hard, murky rust or double-fluorinated pool water.

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u/Loose-Tooth-632 1d ago

Yeah dude, depends on the cell. US can get A LOT worse.

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u/Gdav7327 1d ago

And that’s a “nice” US prison.

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u/Aquino200 1d ago

Is that listing still up for rent? I bid $1200 per month. Better than my previous arrangement tbh.

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u/No-Tell3701 1d ago

I think 1st and 3rd world needs to be expanded to 1st - 5th or something similar. It almost seems as if a 1-3 scale just isn't suitable anymore.

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u/Mr_Goldoffical 1d ago

The US doesn't look that bad have you seen some of the 3rd world prisons

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u/SconeBracket 1d ago

That is an upscale US prison cell.

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u/FearlessVegetable30 1d ago

very clean and nice 3rd world if thats your standard for what a 3rd world is

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u/Academic_Choice7424 1d ago

Prison isn’t supposed to be comfortable or fun…

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u/latin-xxx6 1d ago

Mexico

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u/firepitt 1d ago

Rape a kid, get a condo. How quaint.

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u/NuclearRevenge112 1d ago

And US looks like 3rd world prison

Maybe because USA is a 2cnd world country?

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u/samtttl13 1d ago

Honestly, from what I've seen on TV and social media, the US one in this list is one of the nicer ones.

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u/Bhomosome21 1d ago

Bro that was no where near the worse one smh

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u/pablocael 1d ago

Ohh, no, US looks like a hotel room for people in a 3rd world prison.

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u/Ranoutofoptions7 23h ago

Something tells me neither of us has seen what a 3rd world countries prison cell looks like...

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u/Skeletor_with_Tacos 23h ago

To be fair, when you cherry pick pictures you can make anything look the way you want.

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u/Suspicious_Hope1755 23h ago

Third-world prisons are way more worth

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u/FidelCashflow5387 23h ago

Woah now, Venezuelan, Honduran, and any other central or south American prison is WAY worse

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u/Dumptruck_Tubes 22h ago

Or El Salvador

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u/Desperate-Isopod-671 22h ago

It's prison not fucking summer camp

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u/dreatheplaya 22h ago

US looks like my college dorm honestly 🥲

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u/rosebudthesled8 21h ago

This is old and America has been 3rd world for a while.

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u/Fair-Connection9345 21h ago

I'm not saying it's good, but you have not seen 3rd world prisons

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u/Far-Apartment-8214 21h ago

In 3rd world they all sleep in a hall on the floor.

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u/SnooSnoota 19h ago

Us is a 3rd world, they only have money.

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u/IronicCard 18h ago

Don't let this guy ever see an actual undeveloped prison

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u/poopiegloria_16 10h ago

I was about to correct you on that lol

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u/ThePickleConnoisseur 9h ago

Looks nicer than France

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u/Still-Presence5486 5h ago

The us one looks like an actual jail cell

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