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In reply to the discussion: revenge porn site operator cries at his sentencing [View all]DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Doesn't reduce crime or improve society. It makes you feel good. That's not a sound basis for formulating social policy. We will spend well over half a million dollars warehousing this person. His opportunity to rehabilitate himself and return to make amends and try to contribute to society will have long since passed when he is released with no prospects for employment and an instituionalized mentality. Ha ha good, fuck him, he deserves it. Fine, but we pay for it and have gotten nothing in return. There is no rehabilitation or deterrent in an 18 year sentence that isn't there in a 5 year sentence. Americans are an unforgiving and vindictive lot, that's all that our prison sentences are about. Most of the civilized world has sentence a quarter of ours on average and they have no greater crime rates than we do.