The last time I checked rape wasn't a Constitutional form of punishment.
"I've been sentenced for a D.U.I. offense. My 3rd one."
Was: "I ran out of sympathy about right there..."
So, with that we are to take it that you think he deserved what he got when he got raped, repeatedly.
I just can't imagine any true conservative believing in a sentence for a crime that says: "we hereby sentence you to 15 years of nightly rape orgies with you as the victim". Because that is what your knowledge combined with your lack of "sympathy" says. Only its not lack of sympathy, its lack of basic, instinctual human compassion.
Right, he deserves to be gangraped......nice. :sheesh:
3 duis is pretty dumb but as a Christian I can't see it justifying putting someone in a situation where one is practically garunteed to be raped.
We're pretty much number 1 in the world, there's no reason we can't clean this garbage up; putting folks convicted of something like that in a scenerio where they're victims to other crimes only makes harder criminals.
Who the heck benefits from that?
Meting out justice is the prerogative of society, through due process of law. It's not the purview of gangs in prison. Inmates being able to get away with this sort of thing indicates that they're the ones running the institutions, and that's completely unsatisfactory, whether you have sympathy for this particular individual or not.
I also have a hard time feeling sorry for someone after their third DUI. So I really don't have any symphathy for the guy. My friend just lost her hubby to a drunk driver (4th DUI) in August 2006. Her hubby's was coming home from work after a 12 hour shift. They had 2 little boys and she was 5 months pregnant with their 3rd child. She is in her twenties and left to raise 3 kids under the age of 5 on her own. So I have a very hard time feeling sorry for a drunk drivers. She has my symphathy, her hubby was 100% innocent.
Ditto.
The problem is that if nothing is done to reform prisons to make them less safer, the liberals are going to demand that non-violent criminals not be incarcerated and they will get a lot of public support on the matter.
All of the research indicates that prison violence makes all prisoners (even the ones in there for non-violent crimes) more prone to violence after they are released.
Just because someone is guilty of a crime does not mean they should be assaulted and raped. It's really not a funny matter.
Ya know, if other prisoners, like the ones at Gitmo, have a right to pray five times a day and be supplied with engraved copies of the Koran, then surely this guy deserves to be protected from rapists.
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The punishment is suppossed to be jail time, not rape.
In my single law class, (Constitutional Law) one point that was brought up over and over again was that the punishment must fit the crime.
So if a woman or man has been convicted for drunk driving, even if it was a third offense, you are perfectly fine with that person being raped over and over again as part of their sentence?
You are amazingly short on sympathy. Justice does not involve implicit, underhanded punishment. If he's sentenced to 3, 5, 10 years, let him do his time but I have sympathy for anyone who is raped.
Honestly, most of my sympathy is reserved for people like Jacqueline Saburido, not for repeat-offending drunk drivers who put innocent families at risk on the road. How can a man who has no respect for innocent life expect others to have respect for his "quality of life"?
I feel bad for the guy, but he certainly brought this setting on himself. One would think that if you are in prison, you can be protected, but prisons are terribly understaffed. I have a very close relative that worked at a miniumum security prison farm (he quit because of the atmosphere) the prisoners run the prison. There is only an illusion that the correctional officers are in charge.
Even DUI doesn't merit group rape.