For Lesser Crimes, Rethinking Life Behind Bars
• New York TimesYet the judge had no other option on that morning 15 years ago. As her stunned family watched, Ms. George, then 27, who had never been accused of violence, was led from the courtroom to serve a sentence of life without parole.
the system did not fail. the system worked. the prison system needs workers that are hired out to the states or are forced to work for 25 cents an hour. UNICOR. Germany had such a system during the 1930's, six different offenses, including being homosexual, unemployed, politically incorrect, a violent criminal, or the wrong religion, would put you in the German camps.
Is this the kind of thing that the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they set the thing in place? We need an Amendment that anyone can invoke that immediately makes the punishment fit the crime. In this case the woman said that she wasn't even aware that there was any criminal activity going on. What is this Government against the people stuff?