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Jo Waller's avatar

I have a Swedish friend who said yesterday 'the new government (the moderates) are in favour of more police and prisons, rather than helping to develop young people. I am trying to divert things I learnt on the teaching assistant course, such as conflict resolution, leadership, group and developmental psychology, into being a job coach instead. However, they have also cut that budget by 25%, so I am not having much luck at all.'

Money that would prevent people being in prison is spent on prisons. Is that would you mean by countries (seemingly advanced social democracies) going right wing all the time?

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Gavin Farrell's avatar

Has union membership been dropping in Sweden over time? Loss of organized worker power is a precursor to Right Neoliberals starting to build their prison state.

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Jo Waller's avatar

I don't know. I'll ask.

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