I certainly agree that we should want to know what we are getting for the money we pay. I also would agree it would be better to find ways of rehabilitating prisoners. If adopting Norway's system could be shown to work in our country, I would be all for it. But Norway is far different than the U.S. 86% of their population is ethnic Norwegian, and half of the remainder are from Western cultures, leaving only 7% from other cultures. 80% are Christian. Then there is the fact that the country is socialist, meaning it costs them little more to incarcerate and feed a person in what seems like a middle class apartment than it does to provide for a free person. And since they have 90% less crime, they can afford it. None of that works here. Until we have something that does, I would rather criminals be in jail instead of loose to commit more crimes. For me in Springfield, it is literally a few more dollars.