My personal belief is that a non violent first offense should NEVER result in jail time. Yep, Bernie Madoff should have walked, albeit with a felony strike and

My personal belief is that a non violent first offense should NEVER result in jail time. Yep, Bernie Madoff should have walked, albeit with a felony strike and ruinous restitution. The alternative is our current gulag. [EDIT] And the subject of tfa is, apparently, not a first-offender.