Comment Re: Idiotic (Score 1) 591
I find it kind of remarkable that it's so low in the US. I wonder why that is. I can't imagine that conditions are any better. Or are UK prisons that much worse?
Could we be taking stronger steps to prevent it? (Surely not.) Could it be something about our pro-imprisonment culture that makes for a different mind-set among prisoners? Perhaps the record keeping is different?
I'm not any kind of expert, so this is the rankest speculation. The factor-of-five difference is very striking.