[Atlantic Friend]

"#2. As stiff as the potential penalties may seem, the fact is according to the cops all these guys have been in a revolving door in and out of jail. Europeans, in general, have this thing about keeping criminals locked up ~ they don't!"

You mean, criminals like the parolee in Brooklyn who recently killed actress Nicolle DuFresne because she smiled ? Frankly, it does not take a rocket scientist to see that this is a problem affecting every Western nation, because of all the political correctness thing, and because our judicial and prison systems date from a time when people didn't have that many easy ways to commit crimes and clog tribunals.

[muawiyah]

We don't have parole in Virginia. Then, if you used a gun in your crime, we slap an additional 5 years on your sentence.

This cut the state's murder rate substantially.

Obviously today's French are not like the old timers who made good use of Devil's Island!