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for reference, the prison population of sweden (as of october 2023) is around 7 000 people, or 0.07% of the population, with another 10 000 "beginning" a sentence that year. about 10% of convictions result in incarceration, and of those (as far as i understand the numbers) most are less than a year. note also that the prison population has risen and continues to rise sharply in the previous 10 years, up from 4 000 in 2016.
funding and upkeep
the prison and probation service (Kriminalvården) gets 20% of the funding allocated to the judiciary, which for 2026 is expected to be 78 billion kronor, making the service's budget take up 1.03% of the total expenses of the state.
ex-cons
i don't know any ex-cons, but i know of some. unless they are repeat offenders or actively harming people it's usually not brought up. rehabilitation has historically worked well since crime is traditionally a function of needs. for more serious cases where there's credible evidence of medical grounds for the criminal activity there is a process for institutional care (rättspsykiatrisk vård).
treatment of inmates
nordic prisons are pretty well-known for being humane, and sweden has historically been no exception. inmates tend to get their own rooms with bed, furniture and enclosed toilet, most prisons have open wings so that inmates can socialise and cook in communal kitchens, and so on. however, swedish prisons are currently going through somewhat of a crisis due to the violent organised crime wave that we've had going on for the past five years. single-occupancy rooms are being used by multiple inmates, rehabilitation is taking a backseat to simply keeping the prisons running, guards are being threatened more often, and so on. we're currently building out our high-security facilities to mitigate this but in the mean time the lower-security facilites are picking up the slack, which they are not equipped to do. we're trying to expand the number of prison spaces from 9 000 to 27 000 by 2033. time will tell how this situation affects the system in the long run. i'm not positive.
recidivism
according to the national council for crime prevention (brå), the recidivism rate for people first found guilty of a crime in 2017 was 25%, 35%, and 41% after one, two, and three years respectively. men (82% of the data) were much more likely (44%) than women (30%) to be repeat offenders after three years. The most common crime was possession of narcotics, consisting 54% of cases. worth mentioning is that sweden has an extremely strict narcotics policy.
ownership
the prison and probation service (kriminalvården) owns and operates all domestic incarceration facilities, including pre-trial ones. the idea has been floated to rent space in facilities internationally to handle the rapidly ballooning prison population, but i don't know if that's gotten anywhere.
yeah but, again, it's seamless. my instance only hosts content in swedish, but that's not really a problem. sorting by scaled means i still see things that happen locally mixed in with everything else.
it's weird that, because once you're in it's basically seamless. it's just that first step of picking a server based on your interests that trips people up, because aren't you supposed to pick interests after you get in? more national instances would probably solve that, i think, so you can just go to your local one.
this might be the worst image i've ever seen.
...also why is bosnia and herzegovina in there twice
we need more hornyposting and leftist infighting
that's how you know whether it's an american or european drinking game. my theory is that it's a religion thing
it's in there, it's one of the unnamed blobs. 25 guns per 100 people, .5 deaths per 100 000 people. on par with portugal.
i think it says booᚴ
i will not dispute the dumbass part but i have been programming professionally in python for 16 years. doesn't mean my code is any good, of course.
Growing up, portable cassette players were always called "freestyles" here. I never knew it was a marketing thing, or that some other countries also objected to the naming.
this is "original research", which means i dicked around on the internet archive for half an hour. it may be wrong.
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Any ideas? My desktop always ends up like this on login, i don't even know where to begin to fix.
(feddit.nu)
I have two monitors, one 1440x3440 and one 1080x1920 to its right. Every boot, the desktop on my left monitor moves over and displays on top of the right one. Killing and restarting plasmashell moves it to where it should be, but i'd love to fix this without adding that to my .xsession. Thing is, i'm not versed enough in the KDE internals to know where this issue even stems from.
I'm running EndeavourOS with Plasma 6.1.5 on X11. I haven't tried wayland since Plasma 6 switched to it and then promptly flickered itself into a crash.
Edit: This machine runs the amdgpu-pro driver, and has done since before plasma 6 released. i didn't have this problem on plasma 5.
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i mean maybe. i initially chose one of those instances for mastodon, but it turns out when you don't defederate from anyone, others defederate from you because you act as a proxy for the nazis and pedos to reach other instances. so i couldn't talk to my friends. it's a bit of a hassle.