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It is an interesting dichotomy. A 10 year sentence at any age is basically the end of your life as it existed. When you get out, you won't even have a credit sc
by femiagbabiaka 4y ago
It is an interesting dichotomy. A 10 year sentence at any age is basically the end of your life as it existed. When you get out, you won't even have a credit score if someone wasn't managing these things for you. Most people never recover from that, some lucky ones do. But in the U.S., for many crimes, folks would not see 10 years as enough.
- ddoolin 4y agoMy hypothesis is that your last observation is because of the ostracization (or separation?) of those individuals from society. How many people does the average middle-class person know that have been to jail/prison for anything longer than a night? There's a real disparity between what people perceive a prison sentence and its effects as, and what it actually is. Combine that ignorance with the hard on we as a country have for imprisonment, for various reasons, and it seems like that's what you get.
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoYep I think that's right. People don't understand what a 10 year chunk of your life in hell can actually mean. Communicating that is also very difficult.