This is hideous, but the teen prisoner's 8.5 yr sentence is the real scandal, the real "abuse" http://gawker.com/two-georgia-prison-guards-resign-after-photo-of-beaten-1696164451 …pic.twitter.com/tyg8HJxvv1
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@Soueraigne @cwharlow Systems of justice based on vendetta can be found in Afghanistan & parts of Sicily. They suck. They aren't models.
@Soueraigne @cwharlow The opinion, judgment and power of the victim has been exaggerated to a fault in US crim justice over past 30 yrs…
@Soueraigne @cwharlow such that our justice system increasingly resembles a vengeance system. Opinion of victim should not trump sanity.
@Soueraigne @cwharlow There is of course no scandal in punishing violence! The alternative to an 8.5 yr sentence is–obviously?–not nothing.
@Soueraigne @cwharlow But severity of the punishment–8.5yrs for an 18 yr old–is severe, closer to Saudi Arabia than other 1st world nations.
@ChMadar @Soueraigne I've done time so I'm biased but my "victim" wanted NO jail for me judge gave me 6 months and 5 years probation
@Soueraigne @ChMadar I know . That was the most insane shit I will ever see. I'm pondering moving out of the country
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