Lock 'em up and throw away the key!

[SmarterthanYou]

How about we give them a plane ticket to another country and $250,000? That would save us about $149,000.

"Isn't that what all you libs are about?" You libs? Because I think putting someone away for 30 years and spending $400,000 to warehouse them for committing 3 petty crimes is a waste?

The concept behind the 3 Strikes law is a good one. But this is not what it was aimed at.

then you need to be blaming the legislators who got power drunk and crafted the law, then you need to get start blaming all of the prosecutors who wanted to 'look tough on crime' to further their political ambitions. Do that instead of lashing out and blaming other people.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Well, you're a dick. That's been established long ago.

Not caring about stupid people is fine. But not caring whether stupid people rot in prison with life without parole for stealing a toolbox is something else altogether.

What did he do for his other two offenses?

 

[christiefan915]

he did not get 30 years for stealing a toolbox. That is the red herring in all of this. He got 30 years for being a habitual offender. nothing more, nothing less. If it turned his life around, and it looks like it has done that, then i'd say it was successful.

He was a habitual offender with a rap sheet for petty crimes, but he wasn't violent felon.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Damocles]

What if he had stolen TWO of them??!!!! Chaos! Lake of Fire! End of Times!

We barely dodged a bullet there! *whew* I can't believe he's walking the streets!

 

[WinterBorn]

then you need to be blaming the legislators who got power drunk and crafted the law, then you need to get start blaming all of the prosecutors who wanted to 'look tough on crime' to further their political ambitions. Do that instead of lashing out and blaming other people.

I do blame them. I don't think I blamed anyone else.

What passes for justice in Alabama is a joke too much of the time.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

He was a habitual offender with a rap sheet for petty crimes, but he wasn't violent felon.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

then by that argument, a person who possesses a unregistered machine gun should not be sent to prison for 10 years, right?

 

[Whomever]

Now he is in the prison of religion.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I'm glad he got out, but really. He did know about the three strikes thing, right?

I wouldn't even move towards the appearance of breaking the law if I had that hovering over my head.

I am not sure three strikes existed 30 years ago. I don't know what law he was imprisoned under.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

He got 30 years for being a habitual offender.

So you're punishing him for the crimes you think he's going to commit? That sounds fair.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

So you're punishing him for the crimes you think he's going to commit? That sounds fair.

strawman much?

 

[Minister of Truth]

Now he is in the prison of religion.

Another liberal.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Now he is in the prison of religion.

Agreed. IMHO, one condition of parole should be rejection of superstitious beliefs.