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From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes)
Subject: Re: Len Rose sentenced to Prison Term
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.052716.19715@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: spam Hacker spam Prison spam AT&T spam wire-fraud?
Organization: Thinkage Ltd.
References: <1991Jun12.171049.12389@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991Jun17.171009.25930@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Jun17.182102.9221@netcom.COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 05:27:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.182102.9221@netcom.COM> ser@netcom.COM (Steve Rubin) writes:
>In article <1991Jun17.171009.25930@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>>
>>	Why a year and a day?  What is the motive behind this?  Why not just
>>a year?  So now they can say, "We put him in just, not just for a year, but
>>MORE than a year?"
>
>(this is real stupid)
>If they put someone away for more then a year they can put them in a Federal 
>Prison instead of state prison.  Stupid ehh?
>

not at all.
generally, but not always, prisons run by smaller jurisdictions (tax bases)
are more crowded, less equipped and generally LESS NICE PLACES to be.
also fed penns are more likely to have "programs" for rehabilition,
[well, more like fun & games instead of boredom, rehabilition may
   be incidental ;-]
smaller jurisdictions merely supply a bed for you to pass time.
also, do people *really* serve their *whole* sentence?

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