W/e

So its about race and not system?

My reply was about what prisons are. I was not replying to OP

Norway has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, around 20% within five years of release.

With a few exceptions of life sentences, this is not how prisons works. We have prisons to separate the bad apples for a while, and we use that time to rehabilitate the apples. Its not a perfect solution bit it works better than without prison.

Edit to clarify that this is about prison