Why is it that convicted criminals don serve their entire prison sentence?
Some of the biggest criminals and terrorists don’t even get convicted! Consider the following example: George W. Bush repeatedly ignored warnings and reports that terrorists were “planning to do something big inside the USA involving airplanes”! He let over 3000 Americans be murdered and the WTC destroyed in order to have an excuse to make his little war of revenge against Iraq. Even so, when the American people were not 100% for the war, he–and ****–came up with all the WMD’s fabrications and lies. Reps want to give Shrub credit for “keeping us safe” after 9/11; however, what they don’t want to mention is that GWB seemed to be more concerned about the safety of the Bin Laden family (That’s right! the relatives of OSAMA BIN LADEN) because every single one of them was escorted out of the country in jet planes, at the same time that Americans were stranded all over the US airports unable to get to their destinations. “…..after all, this is the guy who tried to kill my daddy at one ti
I hate to nitpick, but only convicted criminals serve sentences. “Someone who get sent to prison for 25 years shouldn’t get out in 5.” It’s best to think of a sentence as being something other than a period of time spent incarcerated. It’s more like a commitment – even after you get out in 5 (that seems an exageration if you know of a specific case, please cite it) you are still under parole supervision. Judge’s know that someone who gets a sentence will not necessarily serve the entire period – they account for that when they impose sentence. So when a defendant gets a sentence of x that turns out to be Y, you know it was Y that the court was shooting for, and anything above that is the defendant’s own fault. Also, it makes it harder for the defendant to successfully appeal based on an excessive sentence charge. “Why does our legal system work this way?” You can pick a number of reasons, but mostly they deal with the direct and collateral costs of incarceration. Running prisons is an
It depends on the state, but in general the prison system is designed with a matrix that provides for GOOD TIME work credits. If a prisoner works or attends school he is granted those good time credits toward his sentence. Same states have 50% some 80%, again I don’t know our state so I can’t say. California was a DAY FOR DAY state. That meant that any prisoner serving time in California was entitled to HALF TIME CREDIT, meaning “Do your time quietly, without problems and for each day you serve, the state will reduce your sentence by one day.” the net effect being a prisoner serves only half his sentence.California has since gone up to 80% and a prisoner now serving time is entitled to good time credits that reduce his sentence by 20% in total. This is an effective tool to keep prisoners programing rather than killing each other and the guards who are responsible for them. Without good time credits a prisoner can be as unruly and wild as he chooses. There would be no punishment for dis
