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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
And yet we'll sit in a movie theatre and cheer while the 'good guy' gets revenge/vengeance against the 'bad guys' in the most gruesome way possible. i.e. - in recent times, Liam Neeson in the Taken movies...back in the day it was Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies. Hundreds upon hundreds of examples - and yet you don't commonly hear people sayin', "Geez, couldn't the good guy just have locked him up instead?"
No, people cheer the body count. The pound of flesh. The eye for an eye.
I'd support life sentences if the fucking prisons were stripped down to what they should be - hell holes devoid of all the comforts they currently enjoy. I have several friends and former co-workers who work for Corrections Canada and I often hear of the conditions inmates enjoy at various prisons. It's enough to sicken the average taxpayer - moreso the families and victims of crime.
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I used to know this lady who was a corrections officer in a max security prison near Houston. When they were inspecting mail, they saw one guy had a check sent to him for $30,000.00. Later, another got one for $20,000.00.
These guys were both convicted murderers with life sentences.
Turns out the money was paid to them as advances because they were writing children's books.
I have had family members that were also corrections officers as well as friends and i've heard some fucked up stories, but that one right there was the only one that i found to be deeply disturbing.