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Old 2008-11-25, 19:18
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Default Should all judges/prosecutors be required to spend time in jail?

America's prisons are overcrowded, 1 in 100 Americans is in prison right now, that is an embarrassment to our nation. We have become a prison culture in a way. When we see someone going to jail on TV we think "LOL, he's going to get assraped." Prison should be the LAST resort for any crime, it can screw someone up mentally, make them a worse person coming out of prison, and steals time they can not get back.

Many judges and prosecutors have no idea WHAT prison is and have no way to decide how much time is enough. They just seem to say "OK, here's 3 years," a decision like that should not be made without some serious thinking and a way to gauge how much time and pain that really is.

So I propose that all criminal judges and prosecutors be required to spend 10 days in prison to get to feel what they are sending people to. They would have protection with them of course. Once a judge feels prison, they will never feel the same about sending someone to prison.
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Old 2008-11-25, 21:14
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The experience of prison is subjective. To a respected, well educated judge, a week might be what he deems as hell. But to a general asshole who aspires towards nothing but committing crimes and has probably already been there before, a week might be a joke. See what I'm saying? There are some odd people out their who might find 3 years laughable, but I bet that judge wouldn't think so.
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Old 2008-11-26, 00:56
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No they should not.

Judges don't arbitrarily throw a sentence at someone. They intensely study common law to determine a sentence. The sentence is well deserved by the criminal.

You act as if judges are cold bastards who condemn people to life sentences.

If you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.

Dolt.
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Old 2008-11-26, 04:02
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No they should not.

Judges don't arbitrarily throw a sentence at someone. They intensely study common law to determine a sentence. The sentence is well deserved by the criminal.

You act as if judges are cold bastards who condemn people to life sentences.

If you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.

Dolt.
huff raid?
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Old 2008-11-27, 20:52
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No they should not.

Judges don't arbitrarily throw a sentence at someone. They intensely study common law to determine a sentence. The sentence is well deserved by the criminal.

You act as if judges are cold bastards who condemn people to life sentences.

If you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.

Dolt.
This.
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Old 2008-11-29, 20:53
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huff raid?
Get a decent come back?
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Old 2008-12-02, 10:13
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No they should not.

Judges don't arbitrarily throw a sentence at someone. They intensely study common law to determine a sentence. The sentence is well deserved by the criminal.

You act as if judges are cold bastards who condemn people to life sentences.

If you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.

Dolt.
Again, this in a nutshell.

A judge/prosecutor doesn't send you to jail - you send your idiot self to jail because YOU got caught doing something stupid.
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Old 2008-12-05, 00:30
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Default Re: Should all judges/prosecutors be required to spend time in jail?

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Again, this in a nutshell.

A judge/prosecutor doesn't send you to jail - you send your idiot self to jail because YOU got caught doing something stupid.
Unless you're that guy who got jailtime for getting a blowjob from a girl a year younger than him on a technicality.
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Old 2008-12-05, 10:23
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Unless you're that guy who got jailtime for getting a blowjob from a girl a year younger than him on a technicality.
Hahahah, shit!

Touche!
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Old 2008-12-05, 23:24
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Yes they should. And not some faggot ass shit where they aren't at risk of getting stabbed/raped. I mean hard time with bubba.
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Old 2008-12-06, 01:15
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I got a better idea. The curriculum for 8th grade health class or some shit should include a scared straight like field trip. The kiddies go off to a prison, spend at least a day there (being realistic here), and hear about what it's really like from correction officers and inmates. You got to hit them at such a young age because that's when they get involved in crime. Deter, deter, deter.
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Old 2008-12-06, 08:34
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Yes, I agree with the OP. And judges that pass down mandatory death sentence by lethal injection should be given some lethal injections first too,....

and for those who send people to an electric chair, should be electric-chaired first too....

That will give them some insight as to how it feels like having electric chaired and lethally injected.....
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