dark hair and eyes are more common in western norway, people are often shorter too. This could be the remnants of a non-germanic people that lived there before.

He defined nordique by a set of physical characteristics: the concurrence of somewhat wavy hair, light eyes, reddish skin, tall stature and a dolichocephalic skull.

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Life expectancy, literacy, and income are all unusually high in Norway. But there is a dark side of this country that most people are unaware of. Norway is the drug overdose capital of the Europe.

Norway was not among the poorest countries in Europe historically. It was among the richest!

Nordic usually means the five states Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, plus the three autonomous territories connected to these states: the Faroe Islands and Greenland (Denmark) and Åland (Finland). History of the Nordic region.

In short, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are all Nordic countries with Scandinavian roots, but typically, you will only find Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish people referring to themselves as Scandinavian.

Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring Norse pirates from southern Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden) who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.

In the current scenario, while the term ‘Scandinavia’ is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term “Nordic countries” is vaguely used for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, including their associated territories of Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands.

Nordic countries rank so high on the happiness report because they have things like free education and healthcare, low crime rates, cushy social security nets, a relatively homogeneous population and they’re fairly prosperous. “We find happiness in our own pursuits,” like our professional work and passions, he adds.

What’s the main point in why Scandinavian prisons are superior? They actually try to educate and rehabilitate their wards, unlike the U.S. prison system who’s only goal is punishment. That’s why the U.S. has such a high recidivism rate among its prison population.

Restorative justice in Norway. Norway has one of the lowest incarceration and recidivism rates of the world. Their method is so effective that other countries call it the “Norwegian model”. Norway prefers to use alternative penalties, also known as “penalties in society”, but “penalties in prison” are still used.

Prisons in Norway are known for being heavily focused on rehabilitation. Some say they’re too comfortable and forgiving for perpetrators of serious crimes, including violence. Some say they’re exemplarily humane and part of the reason Norway’s crime rates are low compared to other countries.

Nordic countries don’t rely on prison labor to drive their economy, so their prisons are focused on rehabilitation, not recidivism. They treat their prisoners like humans so they will act like humans on release. They have one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world.

El Rodeo Prison in Guatire, Venezuela is the country’s worst inmate holding facility. This maximum security facility holds approximately 50,000 prisoners.

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the United States

These are the 10 states with the highest incarceration rates:

• Georgia.
• Kentucky.
• Texas.
• Arizona.
• Arkansas. Incarceration rate: 586 per 100,000 people.
• Mississippi. Incarceration rate: 636 per 100,000 people.
• Oklahoma. Incarceration rate: 639 per 100,000 people.
• Louisiana. Incarceration rate: 680 per 100,000 people.

New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts have the lowest prison incarceration rates of under 200 per 100,000 people.

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The two Best States for corrections are New Hampshire and Maine , which both also rank in the top three for safety. New Hampshire also ranks in the top 10 overall, as do Massachusetts and Utah , the fourth and fifth Best States for corrections, respectively.

1910 – Unknown) Released in 2011 at the age of 108, Brij Bihari Pandey is the oldest prisoner ever in the world. Although Pandey technically only served a two-year sentence, he has been in jail since 1987 after he was arrested for the murder of four people.

Out of all ethnic groups, African Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and Native Americans have some of the highest rates of incarceration. Though, of these groups, the black population is the largest, and therefore make up a large portion of those incarcerated in US prisons and jails.

In 2019, the incarceration rate of African Americans in local jails in the United States was 600 incarcerations per 100,000 of the population — the highest rate of any ethnicity. The second highest incarceration rate was among American Indians/Alaska Natives, at 420 incarcerations per 100,000 of the population.

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► The highest female prison population rates are in the U.S.A. (about 65.7 per 100,000 of the national population), Thailand (60.7), El Salvador (58.4), Turkmenistan (about 38.2), Seychelles (34.8), Russian Federation (33.5), French Guiana (32.4), Macau-China (31.3), Rwanda (29.6), Greenland (28.5) and American Samoa ( …