Sick sentences - our country is truly screwed up.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Duke Cunningham, who pled guilty to taking more than $1,000,000 in bribes while pretending to represent the country in Congress, will serve probably 5 yrs in prison.

The cellphone bandit, the woman who stole a total of $75,000 in five video's robberies will serve 15 years.

Which posed a greater danger to the US? who sold their soul, their ethics, their responsibility to us? Who more damaged our country and our political system?

Then again, a man kissing a woman was guilty of a 3d strike and now faces a life sentence in jail; a medical marijuana grower faces 30-50 years in the pen; a car thief may face 20 yrs simply because he carried a gun.

At the other extreme, Dick Cheney shoots a man, avoids a blood alcohol test, avoids a fine for illegal hunting and GETS AN APOLOGY FROM THE MAN HE SHOT!

[MrSlayer]

1. I agree with you on all except the kiss guy.

He wasn't kissing, he was sexually assaulting the woman. Plus he has a lot of priors for sexual misconduct. He deserves to be away from free society forever.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. but a life sentence? How about real rehab and therapy?

christ on a stick, we have murderers in chicago with lesser sentences on the street. I am not arguing that some sentence was justified, but this three strikes bullshit was nothing more than a convenient way for GOP neocon assholes to pretend to be strong on crime without having to face the actual impact of their mindless decision.

[MrSlayer]

4. Yes a life sentence.

For this particular guy is perfectly justified. He had nine prior sexual offense convictions. He shouldn't have been on the street to begin with.

[spag68]

6. 3-strikes

is part of the consequence of private prisons and their self fulling voter block. along with dea, maybe the most corrupt fed agency.

[spag68]

7. free society

In a free society there should be room for talk about the difference between put "them" all on an island forever and do what is best for us as a society and "them" who may be part of a way to find what went wrong

[liberal N proud]

3. It is all about how big of a lawyer you can buy

[Hubert Flottz]

5. It ain't who ya know...

[Tsiyu]

8. The prison industry is

a big racket.

But you have to be a lowlife scum to even live with yourself if you make $$$$$$$ money incarcerating people for next to nothing.

What mercy you show, that much will you be shown.

Wish some folks actually believed that

[spag68]

9. prisions

are a more complicated subject then that. Yes it is a racket,but don't be so hard on the guards. There is a thought that the keepers suffer in ways that are, if not as bad as the inmates, very severe in many cases.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. There is definitely something wrong with this country's justice system

n/t