the scale of course is different today there are fewer than 3 000 in the finnish prison system the
number of people behind bars in the u.s is equal to half of finland's total population
you told me that feeling only got 3 000 people in jail
only three thousand only three i got more subscribers than the amount of people in the
i'm impressed hey guys what about a phone reacts i'm scared i am scared
okay i'm gonna read this title of the video that we're gonna be reacting to
today and the title goes like this prisoners in finland live in open prisons
where they learn tech skills running back they live in an open prison
that's two things for me a lot of trust and a lot of discipline because i don't know who is
going to be in a prison and actually stay in it if it's open but i guess the type of freedom that you
probably have you probably won't try to get away but um let's get right into this video if you're
finished subscribe and uh leave a like in the video and tell me how it's going and um trust me
i hope y'all are staying posted with the news situation with your buddy beside you
you know who i'm talking about but that's not what we're going to talk about today so
let's just get right into this video because we're not getting political today but um yeah if you're
from finland subscribe and uh leave a like in the video and uh if you want to share what part
of finland you're from that would be awesome but either ways let's get right into this video guys
this man is serving a life sentence for murder
i'm sorry i'm a little body conscious as you can body conscious
you took somebody's life oh my lord wow
see i've gained a few pounds a dip in the frozen lake behind the prison
is part of his regular workout routine no problem
okay welcome to life in one of finland's open prisons
there are no cell blocks here just dormitories inmates come and go in their own cars
what do you mean they come and go
no we 39 seconds in this video and i'm losing my mind already feeling what you're doing
they come and go please tell me i'm getting the wrong concept by they come and go meaning
that they're they just come from their cell and go to the text section where they learn
a little bit of tech please tell me that's what they're trying to say nearby university campus
he's in his dorm room studying for a career in tech some entrepreneurship books marketing books
user experience all kinds of digital and i.t studies and we have this kind
of normality principle that prisoners should be treated equally even though
they are prisoners but they should have access to same services and rights as other citizens
in recent years finland has been named the happiest and safest country in the world citizens
here enjoy generous public benefits universal health care subsidised day care for children and
free college tuition promotional films like this produced by finland's criminal sanctions agency
document how prisoners are eased back into society with work opportunities and help from councillors
and the incarceration rate here is one of the lowest in europe a quarter of what it was okay
okay pretty impressive i got one question this is a very important question and this will conclude
my decision i don't know what the term is called but there has to be a specific
word for a person who is a returnee if that's a word as well a person who returns back to
prison what is the rate of a finished person serving their time completing their time
do they have a high rate of return in or do they have a low rate of returning because if they have
a low rate of return in it means they're doing pretty darn well if they don't have a a a low rate
of returning back to prison they doing horrible that's my opinion but if they have a low rate
they doing really good and if they have a low rate that's pretty impressive as in 1950 in finland
only one in three former convicts ends up back in prison his like i'm predicting this video bro
okay so they um one and three one and three one and three uh what kind of math we talking
about here one and three that's a pretty stretch right there that's that's not bad
actually that's a that's a decent stretch in my opinion that's pretty good compare that to the
united states where two out of three get locked up again within two years of release a 2018 bill
included sentencing reforms meant to reduce what is referred to as recidivism but they
only apply to inmates in federal custody just 10 percent of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in
the us critics say the 2018 reforms are only as small first step and fall far short of the kind
of meaningful change finland is so proud of the scale of course is different today there are fewer
than 3 000 in the finnish prison system the number of people behind bars in the us is equal to half
of finland's total population you telling me that feeling only got 3 000 people in jail
only three i got more subscribers than the amount of people in the
i'm impressed there you go i'm impressed i'm actually impressed 3 000 that is actually
i can understand why you would be considered a safe country as 3 000 of your population i'm not
sure how many finns are there but he just said about a quarter not a quarter half of a million
of the finnish population is in prison in america which is around 2.5 mil so we're going about five
something mil right and i'm gonna give finn finlay about six million in the population and
you're telling me that many of people are that's actually impressive that's impressive finland
congrats that's impressive a re-imagining of what prison looks like here started nearly 70 years ago
when the scandinavian nation began building one of the most humane systems in the world
in some of the latest steps finland's criminal sanctions agency is investing
heavily in technology training the first topic is what is ai then the second topic
problem solving with ai and building a state-of-the-art smart prison for women
and even testing vr to provide an escape from the drab walls and fluorescent lighting of
turku finland's highest security closed prison mika who is 10 years into a 15-year sentence
is walking through a 3-d forest
he seems happy he appreciates the chance to interact with vr technology and learn the
basics of working with computers he's doing better than i am i've never interacted with a virtual
reality if you guys don't know what vr is and the ai is actually auto auto
automated um artificial intelligence yeah or it could be auto automated it could be but i think
it's artificial intelligence um i'm i'm messing up right now but the point is he's doing better
than i am because i've never actually reacted or or used vr before that's that's that's why
not
we try to educate the prisoners to use digital services in a meaningful way so that it would
really help them to rehabilitate and help them to take care of themselves and take
care of their daily affairs and the kind of things the kind of skills that you need
when you reintegrate back to society now finland is investing in the infrastructure to support
that readjustment a 34 million euro prison that many hope will set the standard for the future
no bars glass windows and internet connection in every room and small touches meant for comfort
this is the our speciality is divine yes
when it opens in this fall the brand new facility in hamilina is expected to be
europe's most high-tech women's prison but just across the road a reminder of the past
the old facility built in 1972 once housed both men and women it shut
down in 2019 after years of disrepair mold and other reasons this was before toilet
and where did they empty i take this and
the smell was terrible and just a few minutes drive away a relic built in the 19th century and
modeled on the american style of prison that is still widely in use today cell blocks arranged in
a radial floor plan prisoners living in solitary confinement this one is a museum now i'm telling
you i've never i've never even been inside of one of these like i've never even like i've been into
police stations before but not because of a bad kid but you know certain things that you need
to do so you have to go there or people that you know because i do know a lot of cops but
the point is i've never even been in one of these places before and i've
i've actually learned a lot about prisons because i watch a lot of things on youtube that are
related to prison and what happens obviously it's in america the stuff that i'm watching but it's
really terrifying and i could not imagine you know a life in prison like it's really scary
to think about it and i'm actually really pleased with what finland is doing because
honestly you're giving a person you know the the the possibility to see what it is that they're
missing but also giving them the possibility to understand that they made a mistake you know
so i'm really actually impressed preserved to show just how hard prison life here used to be
for matty the road to reform has led him to a career that he would never have dreamed of before
he connected with reactor a digital agency that designs online education courses when
they heard he was participating in this story they invited him to give some feedback on the program
i'm eager to hear like what did you think about the first course what do you see what was your
general impression about it it was shown quite simply what is a i want isn't ai so that was that
was really good and uh kind of like show that it's not about magic seeing him in this meeting it's
easy to forget that matty is still serving out his sentence for murder in that time he hopes to
complete a university degree and start a business one way to get kind of like employed is of course
self-employment so and a lot of prisoners have already the entrepreneurial mindset
based on mati's recommendations reactor is planning to add an entrepreneurship course
to the prison curriculum it has like enforced my trust also like this finished prison system
where like giving chances to put people like you it's it's awesome after the meeting mati heads
back to loca prison but he is excited for the future at the beginning of my sentence i i thought
that this is there can only be negative things in being in prison that basically life is over
but i think you should give people a chance that's the most important thing
i'm actually not mad about it surprisingly i watched the entire video and my mindset changed
dramatically from that's pathetic to that's actually what we should be doing because honestly
if i'm married and somebody hurts my wife i'm gonna lose my mind and i'm not gonna be able to
forgive them i'm gonna do everything to prevent them from ever seeing the streets like ever again
right but when you think about it does it change the person's mindset no it doesn't but when you
look at the reform you know you're trying to get this person to not want to do that anymore to to
be an example to others that it's not worth it to do that so when you look at the perspective that
the prisons are made of um it's really impressive and i'm actually really proud of finland 000
people in prison that's it i'm impressed uh keep it up finland keep it up
anyways guys that's going to be it i'm out of here peace