WTF ... Prison is supposed to be PUNISHMENT, Prison is supposed to be PUNISHMENT Options

[Godsend]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/08/news/newsm...dex.htm?cnn=yes

Martha Stewart reported to prison in West Virginia early Friday morning to begin serving a five-month sentence for lying about a stock trade....the Federal Bureau of Prisons assigned Stewart to the minimum-security women's prison in Alderson, W. Va., known as "Camp Cupcake." ... It has no perimeter fence, and inmates can spend their free time playing volleyball and tennis or even doing aerobics.

Sentences like this are bullshit. The whole point of prison is that it is a punishment and is supposed to deter you from committing a crime again. Do you think that any of us would really be concerned about going to prison if it was a vacation resort like above? They might as well have just slapped her hand and told her to go to her room. Oh wait, they did that too "Stewart, 63, was sentenced in July to five months in jail and five months of home detention after being convicted in March for lying to investigators about her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in late 2001, right before the stock tumbled."

I'm not sure what is worse, bullshit sentences like this, or the fact that you can go out right now, and shoot your neighbor in the head, get convicted of murder, and I guranteee you will be released from prison within 3-5 years.

Or, an even bigger joke...the fact that you could murder a dozen people, and get the death penalty, and its pretty much a given that 10 years from now you will still be alive, relaxing on death row while you waste the taxpayers money with meaningless appeals.

To sum up my rant, my point is that these punishments are a joke and do not deter crime, especially by "rich people". If I am a celebrity, high ranking govt official, millionare, etc. Do you think I would be concerned at all about breaking the law (assuming I had no morals)? Hell no. Because I know that:

1. I can hire an expensive lawyer and probably totally get off *cough* OJ *cough*
2. Even if found guilty, I most probably will get a very light sentence and get sent to a minimum security resort.
3. Even if I commit a most terrible crime that warrants the death penalty, I can take advantage of legal loopholes and appeal until I literally die of old age.

[Chaos13]

um.....ok.......

kinda funny that Martha Stwert went to a camp "cupcake"
hehe

[xscore]

"Camp Cupcake"? that doesn't even sound like a prison.

[magnificentmike]

wow thats stupid, you can play volleyball or tennis? sounds like great punishment

[DaTru KataLYST]

The prison system is also granting Televisions for inmates that are good prisoners. =)

[Saeglopur]

Not all prisons are supposed to be punishment.. it's for the better learning..

Ahem.

[*CJ1*]

i wanna go to camp cupcake!

[*wind&fire*]

yeh i kno its shiat that prisoner live just normally and stuff... i think they should mb give them shock therapy once in a while

[jaeman]

That prison is probably to build a good character and not a bad character that would want to escape from a prison with no fence.

[tootsie_kiddo]

i once saw on japanese tv bout this prison and they had malls and supermarkets inside and then they had chapels and churches inside the prison. and then the prisoners will marry eachother and they'll hav kids in the hospitals and live happily ever after in PRISON...

[najae]

wtf?! and taxpayers have to pay for that crap?? jeez, i wanna go to prison. sounds like more fun than being an honest working citizen.

[dani41790]

wtf? camp cupcake?!?! thats gay. shes supposed to not have fun

[jaeman]

If all prisons were like that, many people would look forward into getting in trouble.

[*x____duckii*]

Ahem...sometimes when people get tortured too much, it'll make them feel like bullshit and wanna do worse things...

[Godsend]

it's wierd yes I know. I haven't replied till now since I FULLED purchased PS. anyways, the justice system is bull...

[emrzz09]

That makes me mad.


Martha Stewart is innocent, I tell you! INNOCENT.

[happygoluckyng]

That makes me mad.


Martha Stewart is innocent, I tell you! INNOCENT.

ummm.....no she isn't lol...wateva

[DrEaMgUy2K1]

thats what happens when u have money

[mizz_mithy]

they might as well just let her out cuase she's not gettin punishment for what she did.

[sunissed14127]

they might as well just let her out cuase she's not gettin punishment for what she did.

agreed. she's getting treated like that just cuz she's famous. ive never liked her ne ways,so i really dont are what happens 2 her. i hope her fellow inmates beat tha crappers outta her =P sry all u martha stewart lovers!

[Levy2k6]

well they put her in a minimun type prison because she isn't gonna escape.. she's not that smart and she isnt that bad of a prisoner. its not like she killed someone.

prison is just a place to separate the "good" and the "bad" people... and then they got the "good bad people" and the "bad bad people" lol.

[Shattered_Hope]

yur right, yur in prison becuz u need to be punished!!! hell yea.

[inlonelinessidie]

But come on it's not like she committed triple homicide.

[T00000]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/08/news/newsm...dex.htm?cnn=yes




Sentences like this are bullshit. The whole point of prison is that it is a punishment and is supposed to deter you from committing a crime again. Do you think that any of us would really be concerned about going to prison if it was a vacation resort like above? They might as well have just slapped her hand and told her to go to her room. Oh wait, they did that too "Stewart, 63, was sentenced in July to five months in jail and five months of home detention after being convicted in March for lying to investigators about her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in late 2001, right before the stock tumbled."

I'm not sure what is worse, bullshit sentences like this, or the fact that you can go out right now, and shoot your neighbor in the head, get convicted of murder, and I guranteee you will be released from prison within 3-5 years.

Or, an even bigger joke...the fact that you could murder a dozen people, and get the death penalty, and its pretty much a given that 10 years from now you will still be alive, relaxing on death row while you waste the taxpayers money with meaningless appeals.

To sum up my rant, my point is that these punishments are a joke and do not deter crime, especially by "rich people". If I am a celebrity, high ranking govt official, millionare, etc. Do you think I would be concerned at all about breaking the law (assuming I had no morals)? Hell no. Because I know that:

1. I can hire an expensive lawyer and probably totally get off *cough* OJ *cough*
2. Even if found guilty, I most probably will get a very light sentence and get sent to a minimum security resort.
3. Even if I commit a most terrible crime that warrants the death penalty, I can take advantage of legal loopholes and appeal until I literally die of old age.

i loved your little rant. now what do you propose someone do about it? this isn't the middle ages sweetie, we're not going to cut off someone's d*ck for raping a woman. the legal system is what it is, and to you it will only get worse. get over it.

[*RiC3xBoy*]

haha, camp cupcake....