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To: Lane3 who wrote (15486)	6/25/2002 5:51:32 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

If your beef is with the economics of the situation, fine, make convicts productive, and pay for their own incarceration. In those rare cases where it is possible to imagine that the convict can and will pay reparations, I tell you what? How about have the state advance her the money to take care of the kids, and she can pay it off after she gets out? Works for me......

To: Lane3 who wrote (15486)	6/25/2002 6:20:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The great variability and unfairness of the results of the sort of system you describe is how we got here. You seem to assume this "panel" you propose is populated by omniscient wise gods. Out here in the real world, it doesn't work like that. It was to get away from the variability caused by local prejudices that state and national governments were formed and dictated sentences for crimes. How fair would such a system have worked for a black in 1950's Mississippi? It was bad enough with state dictated guidelines that were supposedly colorblind. If sentencing were left entirely up to these local panels, a black who stole a bag of peanuts would have gotten 150 years in a dank, dark hole in the ground.