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Originally Posted by Danzig
if two wrongs don't make a right, i don't see how using another instance of unfair/special treatment somehow excuses this instance.
if the judge had no intention of paris contributing to jail overcrowding, then i don't see why she was sentenced, if said sentence was never going to be served. community service in this instance (and in many others) would have been the right punishment.
if the jail and the staff can't handle having a 'celebrity' then it's a crying shame, since that pretty much means no one with any kind of name need every worry about being jailed. after all, it might be difficult. i find that ridiculous.
now it's not a rash, it was a possible nervous breakdown.
gimme a break--had paris actually had to serve the sentence, it might have gone a long way towards maturing her-since nothing in her life to date has done so.
all are created equal, but some are more equal than others. how true that still seems to be.
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Nobody has tried to excuse this incident, I'm merely pointing out that there are far bigger miscarriages of justice to get angry about yet folks focus on something like this...makes me wonder if it's about justice or something else. Of course the correctional staff CAN handle Paris or any other inmate, my point is that they are quite happy to lose the headache as they are the ones most effected by the media circus. I don't know if you've ever been inside a prison but when you walk through those metal gates and they slam shut behind you for the first time...well, I've seen grown men break down and cry. Five days or twenty days...being there, the realization that you are no longer free but your very life and all aspects of same are suddenly controlled by strangers is the point...some learn and some don't but anything she can learn in 20 days, she can learn in 5! It amuses me that people talk about "teaching her a lesson"...prisons aren't designed to teach, they punish...they should focus more on education, therapy and skill training but they don't. The punishment is the loss of freedom, if you learn by the experience...that's you not the system making the change. We confuse vengeance with justice, and somehow it makes us feel better when someone that we perceive as "having it easy" falls from grace...frankly, that says more about us and our misconceptualized concepts of "justice" than anything else.