Posted on 12/17/2014 4:15:20 PM PST by presidio9
An Oregon woman who called in fake bomb threats to elementary schools asked for a higher prison sentence so she could take advantage of programs behind bars Tuesday.
Jenelle Robyn Pinkston, 47, persuaded a Eugene judge to tack an extra year onto the two-year sentence prosecutors had recommended, according to the Register-Guard.
She said she wanted more time for treatment in prison medical and mental health programs.
"My biggest concern is that I get better," she said, referring to her post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood incidents.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken complied with Pinkston's request, calling her "unheard of" demand "courageous".
Pinkston was sentenced to 37 months in jail-13 months longer than the sentence she faced. She will be credited for the nearly 19 months she has spent
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Could you possibly have made a more shallow comment?
The jails should work these freeloaders, and use their own labor to pay back the society. No health, dental, or vision. They would have to either pay that themselves or sell their possessions outside.
Yeah, that is where my first thought took me. As a
straight guy I wonder what it might be like to be
sentenced to serve a year or two in a Swedish women’s
prison.
thyroid test.
Life with her prison wife must be a lot more tolerable than her local community.
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