That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
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I mean certainly that's true to some extent.
But people get their sentences reduced all the time, for lots of reasons.
There's just not a headline every time it happens to a poor person.
How much of this is just a bias of awareness?
You make a fair point.
It just felt like a good place to drop a little social commentary from my favorite author
He was truly a treasure.
You're making me want to reread all of the books. GNU, Terry Pratchett.
If you're ever wondering "Should I reread the entire discworld series?" The answer is Yes
People incarcerated in the US can have their sentences shortened for good conduct and for completing rehabilitation programs, such as a substance abuse program.
She didn't exactly complete a substance abuse program to reduce her sentence by two years. Instead, she invented this blood test that uses AI to determine what drugs people could most easily become addicted to.
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She defrauded investors. That’s the only reason she’s seeing prison time at all- money. The ethics of her medical product were not the issue, even if they should’ve been.
I was going more for a ”wanna see me do it again” sort of gallows humor. I agree that the most fucked up part is that she's only experiencing a facsimile of "justice" because she "stole" money from people richer than her.
I hate that we live in a world where the greatest crime imaginable is punching upwards.
Yeah and I'm sure shes in one of those rich people prisons too, the kind you or i will never see the inside of no matter what we do
Hard to tell looking at it on Google street view and satellite view. It looks pretty cushy for a prison, but who knows, especially in Texas.
Bingo.
Defraud the public: slap on the wrist
Defraud the wealthy: straight to jail
What's also a bit tragic about all of this is that she chose to have kids right before going to prison. So now her children have to essentially spend their formative years without their mother in their life, other than the prison phone calls and visitation.
Maybe there's a silver lining. There is a chance they'll grow into better people than she did
Bet someone told her that new moms receive a reduced prison sentence before she decided to take kids.
The timing combined with her weird sociopathic nature make it all but a certainty that her decision to have kids was entirely driven by the possibility of a reduced sentence.
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You can't rehabilitate people like this. They are fundamentally broken.
Her sentence was reduced by "more than four months," so I don't know that this is the best example of the broken justice system.
However, I also disagree that people like this should not be given the chance to rehabilitate themselves. Our punitive prison system doesn't work.
Disagree on her being broken. She's a con artist not a mass murderer who was abused from childhood and failed repeatedly by the larger world.
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She's only in prison because she cost rich people money. It has nothing to do with her endangering lives.
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She also hasn't had repercussions for defrauding individuals. She financially injured Walgreens. That's why she is in jail and the other people you mention are not.
We don’t take rehabilitation seriously in the US. Prison is simply out of sight, out of mind.
Plus a big dose of vengeance, they need to be treated like inhuman trash, they need to suffer for their crimes.
Treat a man like an animal long enough and you’ll train him to act like one.
I don't know. She's clearly a problem, but I don't think it serves the greater good to write off any prisoners, or assume anyone cannot be rehabilitated. We should try, not for her, but for all of us.
"Communist labor camps but only for CEOs "
The major problem is she did do what most US CEOs do. Look at Musk: one of the richest men on the planet and not a single promise he's made about technology has panned out.
The system incentivizes these kinds of liars are charlatans
For the exact same crime with the exact same damages, the gender sentencing gap is three times larger than the wealth sentencing gap, and seven times larger than the racial sentencing gap.
Having been born female (or to materially/physically transition to female) is quite literally the single most effective “get out of jail free” card you could possibly possess.
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