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It’s probably more punishment if they leave him in there.

If you think about it if they killed him he wouldn't have been punished because it would happen quickly & it would only happen once.

Why put that lunatic on the news, and that goes for the one in Norway too. 

Webb wrote on Apr 12^th, 2012 at 2:17am:

I don't believe anyone who is spending that much time in prison could be said to be 'alive'.

Being in prison for that long is just a very long death. I doubt he will be released before he dies there. So even if they don't actually execute him, he still has a 'death sentence'.

Actual, Paul, the other day someone was killed over taking a bag of crisps from another inmate. I think that was Canada though.

They should come to the UK prisons... They'd be given Sky Sports and a massage each day 

Do you know what..

U.S. Prisons are such horrendous places to be incarcerated in, together with its variety of deadly inmates, that I am always surprised that anyone ever commits a felony, for fear of ending up there!... ...!

Paul...I promise I will be good, from now on, Your Honour!... ...!

This one has always fascinated me, dating from the old Gold-rush days in the Sierra Nevada mountain slopes, near Sacramento....

...and an area I often fly over in the Flight Sim, en-route to Reno.

Folsom Prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_State_Prison

I just make a determined attempt never to land anywhere near there!... ...!

Paul... ... ...!

andy190 wrote on Apr 12^th, 2012 at 6:21pm:

According to Stephen Fry on QI, American prisoners are responsible for making license plates, bullet proof armor and firearm cartridges... Amongst other things.


I approve though... It would actually serve some purpose, even if some prisoners refused to do work. Maybe they could bring back the chain gangs and fix all the potholes down my local roads 

Manson didn't even bother attending his own parole hearing.  He knows he is safer in isolation. He's cruel and the scourge of the Earth, but he's not dumb. The longer he puts out his vile act, the safer he is. Meaning, if he tried to reform, he would eventually be put into the general prison population and meet his demise.   

The United States is unique - and uniquely evil - in its federal/state justice systems.

State governments are common law based.  In order for an act to be criminal under a state's laws it must be somehow inherently wrong.  That doesn't explain why it's legal to carry a gun in Florida but not in New York but you get the idea.  If you're going to carry a gun from a redneck state into a damed yankee state you might want to check the laws first.

The federal government has no such restrictions and can make pretty much anything it wants a crime.  Didn't pay your phone bill on time?  Well, you just failed to pay a federal tax.  Didn't know it was a crime?  Too bad.  But if you admit guilt and pay an absurd fine the government won't press for a 20 year sentence.  The catch is that you are probably guilty of committing a federal offense.

What makes things worse is that federal government isn't answerable to anyone.  When people see a ridiculous state law in action they demand its repeal.  When they see a ridiculous federal law in action they are lucky if they can identify the agency that enacted it.  Because there are far more federal "regulations" that there are laws.  And there are a lot of laws.

Why does the FCC (or whatever) care if you pay your phone bill late?  Because it has to justify its existence.  If it reports to Congress that it convicted 1000 people of telephone tax evasion it can justify a bigger budget.  Next year it can catch 2000 scofflaws and justify an even bigger budget.