Dimentio
28th April 2010, 09:00
When I first saw the article about this case, I thought that she was a killer on the run or had done some other gruesome crime. Apparently, it was just theft. She would have been 22 years old when she did it, and have been on the run for 34 years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20003038-504083.html
Apparently, she has also led a non-criminal life during most of these years. I think that putting her in prison is both wrong and utterly stupid, given that three decades have passed by, and that she haven't (to my knowledge) done anything warranting an arrest during that time. The purpose of incarcerations should be to seal off dangerous perpetrators from society, not given people who once might have done something illegal an eternal mark of Cain which would prevent them to come into society again.
The US prison system is simply terrible. The idea to throw in people who have smoked dope three times or trespassed on a private garden three times for life is representing a bizarre waste of human beings, as well as what I would deem to define as a crime against humanity. How many convicts do America have today?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20003038-504083.html
Apparently, she has also led a non-criminal life during most of these years. I think that putting her in prison is both wrong and utterly stupid, given that three decades have passed by, and that she haven't (to my knowledge) done anything warranting an arrest during that time. The purpose of incarcerations should be to seal off dangerous perpetrators from society, not given people who once might have done something illegal an eternal mark of Cain which would prevent them to come into society again.
The US prison system is simply terrible. The idea to throw in people who have smoked dope three times or trespassed on a private garden three times for life is representing a bizarre waste of human beings, as well as what I would deem to define as a crime against humanity. How many convicts do America have today?