This Should Piss You Off

[Yojimbo]

(02-27-2017, 11:15 AM)samhain Wrote: Yeah, kind of what I was thinking.  Using prison to punish only violent offenders would be a boon for white collar criminals.  I've always felt that those people should be charged more heavily, not less. If you steal or lose someone's life savings by fraud or deception, you don't deserve to be free.

Well you wouldn't be if 75% of your wages were being taken as restitution and you had to do 10,000, 50,000, 100,000 hours of community service.

Prison is for separating people from society for society's protection. Madoff could have been put on house arrest and fined to oblivion and never allowed to work in finance again.