Failure to punish thugs
dimanche 1 juillet 2018 à 02:00Our legal system fails to properly punish thugs even for the nastiest illegalities.
Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
Our legal system fails to properly punish thugs even for the nastiest illegalities.
"In prison I saw the futility of locking up women for minor crimes."
I am disappointed that this statement is limited to women. UK (and US) prisons for men, nowadays, offer no rehabilitation and clearly do harm in many cases.
Justice Kennedy, a Republican appointee who was not an extremist, is retiring. The Republicans will replace him with another extremist.
France is prosecuting people accused of planning a right-wing anti-Muslim terrorist plot.
The plotters included an ex-thug, so it seems likely they could have really committed terrorism.