After 12 years behind bars, Markus Lanieux thought he had a deal for his release. Then Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a legal challenge that could derail hope for those imprisoned under the state's "three strikes" sentencing rules.

After 12 years behind bars, Markus Lanieux thought he had a deal for his release. Then Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a legal challenge that could derail hope for those imprisoned under the state’s “three strikes” sentencing rules.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
    31·
    2 years ago

    It blows my mind that for so many of my fellow citizens the only solution to fixing a shitty state of affairs is more cops, more punishment, more jail. I imagine a world where blue collar criminals get appropriate sentences, and help, and white collar crime gets long prison sentences.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      It’s because conservatives are incapable of understanding that social problems are complex and don’t have simple answers. To them, crime is solved by guns/police/jail. So if you still have crime, you must not have enough guns/police/jail.