Diacetylus said:
What is this? Some kind of a sick fucking joke? 25 years for doing a little dealing on the side is absolutely ridiculous.
Even one of Britains most notorious and biggest drug barons didn't get half of that (Curtis Warren), and this bloke made hundreds of millions of pounds in drugs.
U.S. needs to get it's fucking act together with these stupid fucking laws. They're no better than S.E.A. regarding drug laws...
Our entire legal system is ridiculous.
One of the biggest problems I see is with sex offenders. It's gotten to the point that virtually everyone believes these people are getting off too easy. It's gotten to the point where people have to register and let the communities know they're there. It's gotten to the point where some communities forbid sex offenders from living too close to schools or areas with lots of children.
But these people continue to commit sexual assaults. There's no adequate rehabilitation for them. They're not being removed from society so as not to pose a threat. And it's like we're all sitting back watching it happen and doing nothing.
As far as I'm concerned, rapists and child molesters should face the death penalty. Other dangerous sex offenders should be put away for life. I mean, really, if they're so dangerous and they keep doing it, why do we keep letting them back out knowing full well that quasi-supervision doesn't work?
Then we're sending young people to prison on other charges for FAR too long and exposing them to all kinds of abuse. In fact, everyone who's going to prison is being subjected to ridiculous kinds of abuse. These people are inside of state and federal buildings being supervised and getting away with it... that in itself should be a crime.
And there's simply no rehabilitation for criminals. They go in and they come out just the same or in many cases, they come out worse because of all the abuse they've been subjected to. Why are we letting them out to go back to crime? Sure, nobody should be rewarded for breaking the law, but we should be counseling these people and perhaps forcing some to get an education so they can be productive members of society. And I believe it would make more sense to have a lot more prisoners going from prison to half-way houses rather than getting right back on the streets.
The system we have in the U.S. right now is not preventing crime, only protecting society from dangerous criminals for a short amount of time, over-punishing a lot of criminals who really just need some help in getting their lives together, and basically costing a fortune for nothing. There is nothing logical or practical about it at all. The only good thing you can say about it is that the conditions in our prison are at least better than those prisons in most other countries.
As for our drug offenders... a lot of the drug rehabilitation programs here are utter crap. Inprisoning someone for possession of personal quantities of drugs is insane. 12-step programs don't teach addicts how to become functional and independent and they're certainly not helpful to people who aren't looking to overcome addiction by becoming codependent supernaturalists taught to embrace a lack of personal responsibility.
Frankly, it still shocks me to see all these problems cited regularly in the media and yet our lawmakers have absolutely no interest in fixing them.