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The flipside of that is having people with lenghty but minor criminal records doing life without the possibility of parole for drastic offenses such as being th
by downandout 11y ago
The flipside of that is having people with lenghty but minor criminal records doing life without the possibility of parole for drastic offenses such as being the middleman for a $10 marijuana transaction, or stealing a $160 jacket [1]. I would gladly accept a rise in petty crime to not live in a country where such barbaric sentences for nonviolent crimes are even possible.
[1] https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole-nonviolent-offenses https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole...
- cm2187 11y agoIt's not exactly the flipside, rather the other extreme.
- johnyjud 11y agoI can't relate to your way of thinking at all. Don't steal people's jackets and this problem won't affect you. I can't understand someone who would take something that doesn't belong to them and then say 'it's not fair you've locked me up'. Did they think that stealing someone's jacket was fair? If someone can't follow the rules, and is more than once reminded of the rules, and still can't follow the rules, then fucking throw them down an oubliette and let them die of thirst I say.