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Prisoners Should Not Be Released From Prisons Because They Have A Terminal Illness
In Ohio, there is a case of a woman who was sentenced to prison for 30 years for not protecting her infant daughter from her boyfriend beating and raping her toddler daughter. This woman now has terminal cancer and the state is considering an early release for her because of her cancer. This is not right and no prisoner should be allowed to be released because of illness. Just let them die in prison.
 Professor  28 May 2008 03:11
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No one should ever be paroled early, especially violent offenders (which granted isn't the case in this example). If you're convicted of a crime, you serve your time. If you die in prison, too bad. Maybe you shouldn't have committed the crime to begin with.
 
 Cephus  28 May 2008 10:33
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Agreed. They did the crime, now serve the time...sick or healthy. Plenty of people have died in prison. What's so special about this woman?
 
 Wolffe  28 May 2008 05:50
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If somebody did something bad that deserves jail time, then they should serve it out in prison. If you are going to die anyways, it doesn't matter where. Just bring the family in when they are about to pass through.
 
 me1974  28 May 2008 03:48
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I think it depends on the exact circumstances of the crime involved. I don't know anything about this case other than what you've told me about it here. On the face of it, 30 years seems a bit harsh for a purely passive crime. If people are intellectually sub-normal, or emotionally weak, they can sometimes fall under the spell of another person. So I can see circumstances in which the crime you've described should be granted leniency.

Whether this is one of those cases or not could only really be determined from a more detailed examination of the background to this crime.
 
 Hidell  28 May 2008 05:20
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