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Also: 30+ years for rape? While rape is a hateful crime, usually people don't get all that prison time for that.
That's what you get when you're poor, black and homeless?
The other unjustly accused guy, who was black but not poor and not homeless got much less time and went out of prison twenty years ago
Rapists should be locked up for life, not 30 years and definitely not 6 months. Given of course that there's actual concrete evidence for it.
7 years is a loong time. Where were you 7 years ago? Imagine all the time since then in the same jail cell. Every day, over and over.
Yeah, such a long time that i'm sure the victim has forgotten this trauma after 7 years ... /s (obviously)
Excessive jail times might make you feel good, but provides no value to society. Does not reduce crime rates and is expensive.
You know, one can inflict trauma that won't be forgotten in 10+ years without any rape. Which wouldn't be a cause for even a fine, or a day behind bars, or lower social prestige of the person doing it.
While with rape - I'm all in support of killing attackers in self-defense, it's justified.
But if the crime is already done, and if you have them behind bars, and the facts are established, then every hour and every day their personality changes, and becomes further and further from the one that committed that crime.
And the purpose of the system in theory is not to punish or destroy. It's to redeem. You are nobody to attempt anything else.