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For the old foges out there, does anyone remember the kid that did the speech tour either back in the late 70s or very early 80s? He had killed a teenage girl (he was 16 or 17 at the time) while he was driving drunk, and he was sentenced to traveling the country, speaking to other kids about DD, and he had to send a check for $1 to the girl's parents every week for some amount of time. (not his whole life, but I think at least a number of years) The judge wanted to make sure that at least one time every week he was reminded of the life he'd taken and of the family she'd left behind.
On the face of it, that didn't seem like too harsh a punishment, but he was very honest about how much that affected him. He said after a couple of months, he would just dread the day of the week he had to sit down, write that check, and put it in the mail. One night he got so worked up, he sat down for hours and wrote out however many $1 checks would have satisfied his sentence and mailed them all off. The family mailed them back, they wouldn't let him off the hook. $1, every week. That was not only a very effective presentation for us to hear, but I love the idea of that punishment.
Back to the OP, I like LPIDelta's version better too.
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