I have always supported very long sentences for rapists, murderers, armed robbers, child molesters, and other violent criminals. The point, when we cannot just execute them and permanently remove a threat to the innocent, is to warehouse them and remove a predator from society for years or preferably for decades.
I have also always opposed the classification of “hate crimes”. Violent crimes are not committed out of love, and the precise motive for unprovoked violence is not terribly important. Lock them all up, whether they hate gays, blacks, Jews, or everybody, or just like hurting people.
The concept of “hate crimes” merely stands for the proposition that some victims are more important than others.