Though incarceration has almost always been a core aspect of punishment in the United States, a critical consideration of the basic nature of prison environ-ments is often omitted from conversations about reform. Instead, and for myriad reasons, modern correctional policy had emphasized the punitive over the humane. In this way, America is an outlier, distinct from many other Western nations. From this position, however, there are many opportunities to look to global peers for a counterfactual; the Scandinavian nations provide an appealing option. Building upon a comparative, international examination of penal policy, this Article seeks to leverage these differences to explore how transnational exchanges can inform domestic policymaking. We examine the Scandinavian Prison Project, a correctional exchange primarily between Pennsylvania and Norway, to consider the challenges inherent in such endeavors, as well as oppor-tunities for encouraging actionable reform in a prison environment.

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“我们实际上可以做到这一点”：适应宾夕法尼亚州的斯堪的纳维亚惩教文化

尽管监禁几乎一直是美国惩罚的核心方面，但关于监狱环境的基本性质的批判性考虑往往在有关改革的对话中被忽略。相反，出于无数原因，现代惩教政策强调惩罚而非人道。从这个意义上说，美国是一个异类，与许多其他西方国家不同。然而，从这个立场来看，有很多机会可以向全球同行寻求反事实；斯堪的纳维亚国家提供了一个有吸引力的选择。在对刑事政策进行比较性的国际审查的基础上，本文试图利用这些差异来探索跨国交流如何为国内决策提供信息。我们研究了斯堪的纳维亚监狱项目，这是一个主要在宾夕法尼亚州和挪威之间进行的惩教交流，