Manafort To Serve 37 months, Not 25 Years

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  • Sgt Schultz
    Commando
    • Mar 2004
    • 1268

    Manafort To Serve 37 months, Not 25 Years

  • Seshmeister
    ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

    • Oct 2003
    • 35379

    #2
    Just to put that in proportion...

    ACLU report chronicles thousands of lives ruined by life sentences for crimes such as shoplifting or possession of a crack pipe


    At about 12.40pm on 2 January 1996, Timothy Jackson took a jacket from the Maison Blanche department store in New Orleans, draped it over his arm, and walked out of the store without paying for it. When he was accosted by a security guard, Jackson said: “I just needed another jacket, man.”

    A few months later Jackson was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Angola prison in Louisiana. That was 16 years ago. Today he is still incarcerated in Angola, and will stay there for the rest of his natural life having been condemned to die in jail. All for the theft of a jacket, worth $159.

    Jackson, 53, is one of 3,281 prisoners in America serving life sentences with no chance of parole for non-violent crimes. Some, like him, were given the most extreme punishment short of execution for shoplifting; one was condemned to die in prison for siphoning petrol from a truck; another for stealing tools from a tool shed; yet another for attempting to cash a stolen cheque.

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    • FORD
      ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

      • Jan 2004
      • 59099

      #3
      Eat Us And Smile

      Cenk For America 2024!!

      Justice Democrats


      "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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