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Originally Posted by lake
She gave as an example a man who stole cough syrup and toothpaste from a drugstore being recently recommended for a one-year jail term. One year. For cough syrup and toothpaste.
We need to change the laws.
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I agree that there needs to be more common-sense sentencing. A man can get probation and community service for beating his wife to a bloody pulp, but someone goes to jail for months over having a couple of ounces of marijuana. (I'm not talking about the person that has been arrested for this before, is violent, a known drug dealer, etc.... Then obviously it's not just a bag of weed and would through common sense have a longer sentence.)
There needs to be an overhaul in many places to make things more equitable in sentencing. Like I said, common sense.