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Originally posted by Driven
The USA is so screwed up with its jail sentences, I mean you do 1 bad thing wrong and they will bend you over and rape you with a 10-20 year sentence.
Jail times are just too long for a lot of things in the USA.
If that was Australia you'd get 2-3 years max, a fitting punishment for the crime, but in America the sentence doesn't have to fit the crime they just fast track it to make it as bad as possible and send the people away for life.
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That is a good point, and one reasons we have such harsh sentences here in America is because conservatives like Rush advocate things like zero tolerance, a war on drugs, and long jail sentences for non violent offenses