Examples of crazy harsh sentences and justice reform being badly needed

[Anonymous]

The duty to punish criminals comes with an obligation not to punish them more than they deserve. Some perps do not even qualify as criminals but rather just as victims of poverty. And blacks overall five times more likely to face jail time for the same crime (x10 more likely in Minnesota nice)
https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/us-criminal-justice-data/

Examples of crazy harsh sentences and justice reform being badly needed - anyone have other good examples? How can we aim for more fair sentencing guidelines? Is there any hope for this?

1. 82 year old woman jailed in Alabama for not paying $72 trash bill (shame on unnamed magistrate for signing that order) “Y'all put me in this cage?': 82-year-old Alabama grandmother said she was told by police officers 'not to cry' after they arrested her for not paying her trash bill
By Pocharapon Neammanee, 1 day ago
https://www.insider.com/82-year-old-woman-arrested-failure-pay-trash-bill-police-2022-12

2. Texas Sentences Man to 45 Years for Purse Snatching Hamilton Nolan 08/10/12
Ten years ago, outside of an Austin, Texas Sears store, Willie James Sauls snatched a purse off the arm of an 84 year-old woman and fled. A state district judge sentenced Sauls to 45 years in prison for his crime. He was 37 years old at the time.

3. The Law That Sent a Man to Prison for Life for Stealing a Pair of Hedge Clippers – and What Prosecutors Can do About It
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-law-that-sent-a-man-to-prison-for-life-for-stealing-a-pair-of-hedge-clippers-and-what-prosecutors-can-do-about-it
Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago. Bryant’s sentence was the result of Louisiana’s extreme “habitual offender” law, which allows people to spend life in prison for minor offenses.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it's a travesty.

And yet Trumpty Dumpty remains free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The duty to punish criminals comes with an obligation not to punish them more than they deserve. Some perps do not even qualify as criminals but rather just as victims of poverty. And blacks overall five times more likely to face jail time for the same crime (x10 more likely in Minnesota nice)
https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/us-criminal-justice-data/

Examples of crazy harsh sentences and justice reform being badly needed - anyone have other good examples? How can we aim for more fair sentencing guidelines? Is there any hope for this?

1. 82 year old woman jailed in Alabama for not paying $72 trash bill (shame on unnamed magistrate for signing that order) “Y'all put me in this cage?': 82-year-old Alabama grandmother said she was told by police officers 'not to cry' after they arrested her for not paying her trash bill
By Pocharapon Neammanee, 1 day ago
https://www.insider.com/82-year-old-woman-arrested-failure-pay-trash-bill-police-2022-12

2. Texas Sentences Man to 45 Years for Purse Snatching Hamilton Nolan 08/10/12
Ten years ago, outside of an Austin, Texas Sears store, Willie James Sauls snatched a purse off the arm of an 84 year-old woman and fled. A state district judge sentenced Sauls to 45 years in prison for his crime. He was 37 years old at the time.

3. The Law That Sent a Man to Prison for Life for Stealing a Pair of Hedge Clippers – and What Prosecutors Can do About It
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-law-that-sent-a-man-to-prison-for-life-for-stealing-a-pair-of-hedge-clippers-and-what-prosecutors-can-do-about-it
Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago. Bryant’s sentence was the result of Louisiana’s extreme “habitual offender” law, which allows people to spend life in prison for minor offenses.

Any time one person has the power to sentence it will be an issue. Sentencing should not be a one person job and courts/DOJ of pulling judges who disproportionally sentence lower crimes and minorities. The data is there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's a travesty.

And yet Trumpty Dumpty remains free.

Of course, he’s rich and white

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The duty to punish criminals comes with an obligation not to punish them more than they deserve. Some perps do not even qualify as criminals but rather just as victims of poverty. And blacks overall five times more likely to face jail time for the same crime (x10 more likely in Minnesota nice)
https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/us-criminal-justice-data/

Examples of crazy harsh sentences and justice reform being badly needed - anyone have other good examples? How can we aim for more fair sentencing guidelines? Is there any hope for this?

1. 82 year old woman jailed in Alabama for not paying $72 trash bill (shame on unnamed magistrate for signing that order) “Y'all put me in this cage?': 82-year-old Alabama grandmother said she was told by police officers 'not to cry' after they arrested her for not paying her trash bill
By Pocharapon Neammanee, 1 day ago
https://www.insider.com/82-year-old-woman-arrested-failure-pay-trash-bill-police-2022-12

2. Texas Sentences Man to 45 Years for Purse Snatching Hamilton Nolan 08/10/12
Ten years ago, outside of an Austin, Texas Sears store, Willie James Sauls snatched a purse off the arm of an 84 year-old woman and fled. A state district judge sentenced Sauls to 45 years in prison for his crime. He was 37 years old at the time.

3. The Law That Sent a Man to Prison for Life for Stealing a Pair of Hedge Clippers – and What Prosecutors Can do About It
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-law-that-sent-a-man-to-prison-for-life-for-stealing-a-pair-of-hedge-clippers-and-what-prosecutors-can-do-about-it
Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago. Bryant’s sentence was the result of Louisiana’s extreme “habitual offender” law, which allows people to spend life in prison for minor offenses.

Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The duty to punish criminals comes with an obligation not to punish them more than they deserve. Some perps do not even qualify as criminals but rather just as victims of poverty. And blacks overall five times more likely to face jail time for the same crime (x10 more likely in Minnesota nice)
https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/us-criminal-justice-data/

Examples of crazy harsh sentences and justice reform being badly needed - anyone have other good examples? How can we aim for more fair sentencing guidelines? Is there any hope for this?

1. 82 year old woman jailed in Alabama for not paying $72 trash bill (shame on unnamed magistrate for signing that order) “Y'all put me in this cage?': 82-year-old Alabama grandmother said she was told by police officers 'not to cry' after they arrested her for not paying her trash bill
By Pocharapon Neammanee, 1 day ago
https://www.insider.com/82-year-old-woman-arrested-failure-pay-trash-bill-police-2022-12

2. Texas Sentences Man to 45 Years for Purse Snatching Hamilton Nolan 08/10/12
Ten years ago, outside of an Austin, Texas Sears store, Willie James Sauls snatched a purse off the arm of an 84 year-old woman and fled. A state district judge sentenced Sauls to 45 years in prison for his crime. He was 37 years old at the time.

3. The Law That Sent a Man to Prison for Life for Stealing a Pair of Hedge Clippers – and What Prosecutors Can do About It
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-law-that-sent-a-man-to-prison-for-life-for-stealing-a-pair-of-hedge-clippers-and-what-prosecutors-can-do-about-it
Louisiana Supreme Court refused to review the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers more than 20 years ago. Bryant’s sentence was the result of Louisiana’s extreme “habitual offender” law, which allows people to spend life in prison for minor offenses.

1) Code Enforcement attempted to contact Menefield several times and issued a citation in August that advised her to appear in court on September 7, police said. A warrant for Menefield's arrest was subsequently issued after she failed to appear in court, per officials.. Warrants can’t be ignored by police. My parents would ignore or claim they didn’t get a warrant because they would not understand what was going on.Family needs to monitor her condition.

2) Threw her to the ground: “ Sauls allegedly stole the purse of Anna Warren, an 84-year-old woman, as she was entering a department store in Austin, Texas. In the course of committing the theft, Sauls threw Warren and slammed her to the ground. A surveillance video of the incident was released to the
local media, and Sauls’s ex-wife identified him from the video. Sauls was arrested at his apartment,waived his Miranda rights, and confessed to the robbery.”

3) “ He was first convicted in 1979, serving 10 years for the attempted armed robbery of a cabdriver. His following three convictions were nonviolent, including charges for possessing some stolen goods from a Radio Shack and trying to forge a $150 check. In 1992, he broke into a home and stole personal property, which resulted in another four years in prison. When a jury convicted him of attempted simple burglary five years later over the hedge clippers, prosecutors invoked the habitual offender laws to obtain a life sentence without parole. Because Bryant had four prior felony convictions, the sentence was legal at the time under Louisiana statutes, prosecutors said.“

None of these cases were as simple as you project