Can Northern Europe’s “human dignity” approach to corrections guide America down a pathway to help undo the degrading, disempowering, alienating, and brutalizing nature of confinement? Many argue that there are too many differences — in politics and law, penal philosophy and punishment culture, in crime types or rates, and system scale and correctional resources. Some even argue that America is too different culturally — they more homogenous, us more diverse.

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