How about a "Four Strikes Law" then?
There may be justification for leniency for first offenders. When does that justification disappear?
How about if we simply make the first felony a one-year sentence and then simply double the sentence for later felonies? Would that be more fair?
If you do the math and recognize the incredible rate of recidivism you would probably end up with the same number of criminals serving life sentences.
Do you have to lock your car when you park in a shopping center parking lot? Why is that? How long could you park without locking your car before the contents or the car are stolen?
San Francisco conducted a sting years ago which consisted of portraying a helpless person holding cash. The sting resulted in the arrest of the same man TWICE in a nine-month period. How about telling us your estimate of the number of crimes that man must have committed during that nine months that went unsolved?
I have no sympathy for career criminals.
It isn’t the sentence it’s the parole process that causes such a high recidivism rate that results in their constant incarceration and that environment changes many people.
I have two friends who are really nothing more than drunks and lousy ones at that.
They are also Barney Fife’s of CriminalDumb.
I can’t even recall what they were arrested for the 1st time more than 20 years and to be sure, they absolutely deserved to be punished but their punishments don’t really fit the crime and for sure their parole requirements are simply idiotic.
Then again, while these two morons are my friends, I am not sure they don’t deserve to be in jail from to time just not two or three years at a crack for mere parole violations.
They aren’t violent just too stoopit to function properly like the rest of us and I hate to see someone become dependent on the state through welfare, the same as I hate to see someone wakeup and start telling themselves after all these years that maybe their best life to get housing, food and medical is to just go back in.
That ain’t living and that’s the direction they are going.