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Originally Posted by tjac  No one lives even close to 150 years. There is no real deterrent in the length of the term. In Madoff's case, it's barely a punishment; he's 71 and life expectancy is 78.
I'm not sure how you effectively punish a Madoff and establish a deterrent...imprison his children for the balance of the sentence that he does not live to serve? |
With the severity of the time, he's not going to club fed as other white collar criminals have done, he's going to medium security, which means that his life expectancy there is under 2 years in general population. He's going to be beaten (or stabbed) to death by some homie who needs to prove his manliness (or maybe to join a gang that requires blood-in).
There is no deterring sociopaths. They never believe that
they are going to get caught. So even if he was fried in boiling oil on prime time TV, the next guy to do the same thing isn't going to think "wow that could be me." Justice isn't about "deterring" the next guy. It isn't about revenge. It is about punishing the one who did it. It is about society saying "this is the price for what you did."
