Reduced Prison Sentences For Readers
Prisoners in Brazil can reduce their sentence by reading books and producing reports on them. If deemed adequate, each report will take four days off a convicts time, with a maximum of 48 days reduction every year. The idea is to help people leave prison more enlightened, educated and less likely to commit crimes. And it seems to be working, with a 30% reduction in criminal relapse amongst those who take part.
BTW, #18 is not 100% true. We pay more taxes than we need to the rest of the year to compensate for this. This is an old odd thing created so people could have more money for Christmas.