[epow]

"This is part of the price we're paying for 20 years of mass incarceration,"

So we shouldn't put murderers and other violent criminals in prison because they may come out worse than when they went in? How about executing them instead of keeping them locked up for a few years at taxpayer expense and then turning them loose so they can kill again? Dead criminals don't commit any more crimes after they assume room temperature.

[ClearCase_guy]

My position is that anything more than a 10 year sentence is foolish. If the crime is bad, execute the criminal. If the crime is not so bad, put them in jail for <10 years and see if they learn a lesson.

This story is one of the many reasons why I support wider use of the death penalty.