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The UK high court has finally ruled on the extradition of Lauri Love, the Finnish-British student accused of cracking U.S. government websites. He will not be extradited to face trial in America. The court accepted both of the main arguments that there is no reason he cannot not be tried in England and that he might suffer serious damage to his health if he were extradited.
Source: Hacking Suspect Lauri Love Wins Appeal Against Extradition to US
Previously: Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S.
Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th
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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:59AM
Paraphrased "You judge a civilization by how it treats its weak and its prisoners"...
In places like Norway, incarceration is all about reform, rehabilitation, and education. It's about correcting a mistake, made mostly by the individual to be sure, but also in a small part by society. The result is not only a lower recidivism rate but also a hell of a lot less friction within the prison system itself. There's a little of the pygmalion effect going on but there is far more to it than that. There was one particular prison in Sweden, before the current situation they have on their hands now, that had maintained for a long time a single-digit recidivism rate, but its curriculum (yes, that's what it was) took a very focused approach towards getting each prisoner as an individual to stand on his own feet and grow up, even if for the first time in his life. It's about the goals of the prison system which are, again, reform, rehabilitation, and education.
On the surface it might seem that the US system is about punishment and revenge. But there are so many people forced in under plea "deals" [theatlantic.com] and there is a not insignificant number of people simply put away despite being innocent [innocenceproject.org] that it calls into question even the basic process. So with that one might say that the goal is simply to inflict the maximum amount of cruelty and suffering on a caged population as can be gotten away with under current laws and the constitution. However, that is just a side effect. The real purpose appears to squeeze maximum profit for private prison corporations by milking government funding as well as nickle and diming prisoners and their families. Overcrowding and mistreatment guaranteeing recidivism both help increase the profit for the corporations involved.
Things like price gouging on commisary goods are par for the course. Fancier tricks include price gouging on calls [wired.com] while simultaneously banning in-person visits [theguardian.com]. There's even an import/export market [nytimes.com] between states over prisoners. Exploitative labor conditions [newsweek.com] inside the prisons have been likened to slavery -- for many years -- and the situation only worsens.
The US prison corporations' pursuit of profit prevent much of any end benefit for either prisoners or society. IMHO neither Lauri Love nor society would have been better of handing over for a life sentence of abuse and destruction. However, that said the UK prisons might not be up to Nordic standards.
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