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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have mixed feelings about the sentence.   His lawyer wanted 18 months and that would have kept him in the Montgomery County Detention Center, where there are much better services than in the State prisons.  And since he will eventually return to our community, services would be beneficial.  He's obviously got some sort of addiction problem.   Probably psychological issues as well.   He may come out worse than when he went in.  And that doesn't benefit anyone.  [/quote]

I am so tired of this argument. You sound like the judge in the Brock Turner case.

So what? Only people with no futures should be jailed, but anyone showing any sort of "promise" shouldn't be because they [i]may [/i]be worse after they get out?

I agree that our prison system is terrible and we should offer more training and preparation for when prisoners are released, but we don't stop sentencing people because we are scared of who they "may" become after!

He killed two people. He knew she shouldn't have been driving. He knew he shouldn't have been speeding. He knew he shouldn't have been driving on the other side of the road. He has a disturbing past (as a teen) and a string of poor decisions. He shows NO REMORSE for what he has done. If the pentaly of vehicular manslaughter is 20 years, he should get 20 years. [/quote]

You missed the entire point, but name call anyway. I work in the jail system. The state system is shit. The county is much better. There should be better services inside at the state level because 99% of inmates eventually come out and live next door to you. We should be making them better people while we've got them.[/quote]
Doesn't Ellis have a well-to-do family who funded his joy rides to beach parties? Apparently the resources money could buy only contributed to the bad boy's delinquency. Sammy squandered what he had on a silver platter.

You can't force anyone to be better if they don't want to be better. This kid was spoiled rotten by giving everything he wanted, while holding back on nothing. Kids must earn the privileges they want, or you risk making an entitled criminal. "I want what I want, when I want it." Similar mentality to 'thugs in the hood' who also want what they want, when they want it.

Again, kids must be allowed to earn for themselves the privileges they want. Why deprive your child of this essential concept??[/quote]

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