I have a suggestion for sentencing white collar criminals...

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

In the "old days", some who were convicted of crimes were put on public display in stocks in the town square. Public humiliation was the goal.

Today, why not install 27-7 web/TeeVee enabled video cameras in the cells of white collar perps (think Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, whoever) so that the entire world can sit and stare at them. It could be operated kinda like C-Span, and there can be closed captioning running across the bottom of the screen telling who the person is and what the they are convicted of.

Since these folks tend to have big laywers and typically don't get put in with the general population of a prison - so I say total humiliation (with a global reach via the Web) for the duration of their term would make them think twice before raiding someone's mutual funds/retirement/whatever...

[Southpaw Bookworm]

1. Punishment fitting the crime?

I think I'd rather leave them in a room alone with 100 folks near retirement who lost 4/5 of their pension because of the WCCs.

[mrfrapp]

2. Cruel and Unusual Punishment.

n/t

[TexasMexican]

9. consitutional amendment

I would support one that would allow cruel and unusual punishment for cruel and unusual criminals.

[Superfly]

3. How is public humiliation going to

restore peoples' retirement accounts?

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

5. this isn't about restitution

but my (lame & naive?) fantasy idea for some form of justice that might shame "They Who Think They Are Above The Law" into doing the right thing (real reality TeeVee...)

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

6. Not nearly as cruel

as wiping out someone's retirement right before they retire. Just my opinion - but then I'm feeling particularly evil today - Day 5 of the Sinus Infection From Hell - and I'm just dying to see some greedy bastard suffer some.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

4. On edit let me add

that IF (big "IF") these scoundrals do any time - it's at the tax payers expense. As a tax payer I feel I have a right to know exactly what the're doing (eating/crapping/whackin..uh- never mind) and when -

Chances are after their short stay with the State, they'll probably still be loaded, probably won't fully repay what they stole, and will probably still wind up making a better living than many others. As such - I want these perps to be locked up in a modern version of a PILLORY (but fully web-enabled with name search functionality and streaming video of course...)

[alwynsw]

7. Therein lies the rub

Even convicts have the right to privacy; according to the U.S. courts.
The only way their cells can be under camera surveillance is if they have been placed on a suicide watch. Even then, it's an iffy thing in the eyes of the courts. That's whhy we end up paying correctional officers overtime to physically watch convicts that are placed on suicide watch. Placing surveillance cameras in common areas is another matter. That's allowed.

Source of this information: I'm a former supervisor at Kentucky State Penitentiary - maximum security, single bunk cells, with the commonwealth's death row to boot. (The cells are single bunked because according to Judge Jo*******, U.S. District Judge for the District of Western Kentucky ruled that the cells are too narrow by literally a few inches, therefore constituting cruel and unusual punishment when double bunked.)

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

8. Can't a person have a (evil) fantasy?

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

10. I was hoping you'd say

execution. Take their money, give it to the poor, and put a 25 cent bullet in their head. Any questions?