What a bunch of crap, getting prison for nine months for sharing a Little Debbie snack

[Union Label]

These fucks have way to much of a power trip happening. :wtf:

MCARTHUR, Ohio - A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.

While there, prosecutors said he bought the oatmeal creme pie from a vending machine and shared it with a fellow inmate who was on restriction and wasn't allowed access to snacks.

Prosecutors in Vinton County have asked Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Simmons to revoke Caudill's probation and put him in prison for nine months.

Caudill's attorney Claire Ball said that's outrageous. Ball says keeping Caudill out of a state prison would leave cell space for a more serious offender.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_fe_st/odd_snack_cake_prison;_ylt=AuEt677UpuaDhTDa47ZJCxguQE4F

[grasswire]

1. and the good taxpayers of Ohio will pay...

.....about $30,000 to hold this man in custody for sharing his cookie with someone who wasn't supposed to have a cookie.

How long will we put up with this system?

[MADem]

2. I say make the guy who got the cookie run around the track for two miles.

And make the cookie giver clean all the toilets.

There, punishment done. Resume prison life.

[varelse]

3. I agree with his attorney

this is outrageous. Still, it is a good wake-up call for anyone who still harbored any lingering fantasies about American culture upholding values such as compassion or condoning compassionate behaviours like "sharing".

Ironically, when I saw the thread title, my first thought was "oh my god, it's that law against feeding the homeless - they have finally lost it and made that into a felony".

Compassion - lacking it is a sin, but expressing it is now a crime. What a world.

[Journeyman]

4. Well, there was a Twinkies defense, now we'll have a Little Debbie's prosecution. . .

and I used to scoff, in my younger days, when health food nuts told me the nation was being ruined by junk food . . . how little I knew or understood. . .

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Wasn't there a guy who stole a slice of pizza and got life in prison?

I think it was in California and the guy already had two strikes and grabbed a slice of pizza out of someone's hand. He was sent up for life for his third strike. I don't know if he appealed or not but I recall that story about 15 years ago.

[Union Label]

7. I don't remember that

I do however remember when that three strikes crap was instituted, to be his third strike it had to be a felony thats some pricey pizza.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Here's the story

In 1995, Jerry DeWayne Williams was sentenced to 25 years to life for stealing a single slice of pizza under California's 3 strikes law. His two previous strikes were for robbery and attempted robbery. I believe the theft of the pizza slice was deemed to be a felony petty theft. I think he appealed and was released after several years.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n20_v87/ai_16709220

[Union Label]

15. Thanks for the link

Thats fucking outrageous!

[tblue37]

16. I remember that. I tell the story in my classes all the time. n/t

[tsdraegeth]

6. Ahh, prison!

Such a wonderful way to transfer money from the taxpayers to a privatized bunch of builders and administrators. Keep packin' 'em in!

[lildreamer316]

8. Truer words and all that.

I am newly awakened to the racket that is the prison system here in the US.

[aquart]

9. Generosity got him 9 mos in jail. Good values teaching there.

He didn't charge for it. He shared. I understand about keeping discipline, I do.

But this is ridiculous. It teaches wrong instead of right.

[crimsonblue]

10. I will sleep well tonight..

knowing that we have terrorists like Timothy Caudill safely locked up where they belong. :sarcasm:

[orleans]

11. yeah, well this guy probably won't

[eridani]

12. The prison-industrial complex is a gigantic GI Bill in reverse

Instead of spending billions to boost the overall skill levels of our population, we are now spending billions to deskill ourselves.

[Solly Mack]

14. and people fault my cynicism

lolololol