A special unit of SCI Chester known as Little Scandinavia houses 64 inmates and gives prisoners more independence, focusing on rehabilitation over punishment.
A plan for reforming San Quentin and incarceration in California was released Friday. It's the most significant criminal justice reform in a generation.
California plans to remake San Quentin as a new kind of prison, modeled after Scandinavian ideals that value rehabilitation over punishment. An L.A. re-entry facility has already made the change.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how incarceration is done in the Golden State, using concepts pioneered in Scandinavia. California prison guards visited Norway to see what it would mean.