Gun Control & RKBA

There's been absolutely endless studies that show that their system does indeed lower recidivism.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/why-scandinavian-prisons-are-superior/279949/

Sweden is NOT the rape capital of the world. For someone that demands evidence of aims you certainly have no problem saying things without providing any.

https://m.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/36d3z8//

And no some people are not just "evil". That's not a thing. There's some seriously mentally ill people that do horrible horrible things but they aren't "evil". There are also people that should be incarcerated for the good of society, absolutely... But that's not the case with a huge percentage of people in the US prison system.

And while you may dislike the terms first second and third world the undying principle is still sound: comparing crime rates in Liberia and Monaco is mostly meaningless.

Finally while the Japanese prison system is hard it is also hard to end up in. The Japanese system is muchess likely to put people in prison relative to the US, and indeed Japan has a much lower crime rate.

Japanese prison itself is not nearly as dangerous (or drug infested) as US prison though. It is much closer to a military system.

http://japan.usembassy.gov/mobile//e/acs/tacs-7110g.html

South Korea also has much lower incarceration rates, much less drug use in its prisons and much lower incidence of prisoner on prisoner violence.

You can also see that the only rich country with numerous violent prisons is the US:

http://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/top-10-most-violent-prisons-in-the-world/