Butner, North Carolina: a place that creeps me out driving by, every time, with whisperings of a mental ward (where John Hinckley, Jr., the lunatic who sought to win over Jodi Foster by shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981, was treated) and where German, Italian and Czech POWs were based during the Second World War; where Jim Bakker and other federal prisoners have spent time. Butner -- the name even sounds bad, evoking Iggy Pop's "Butt Town," for sure. Bernie Madoff will serve part of his 150-year sentence at Butner's Federal Correctional Complex. I would be surprised if he makes it anywhere near that long, "corrected" or not. Quite to the contrary.
Today's Rune: Journey. Happy Bastille Day!
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Madoff looks like he's on his last legs to me.
My son pointed out the absurdity that Madoff's sentence, 150 years, for white collar crime, will certainly be longer than the sentence of the guy who murdered my friend 3 years ago-- maximum sentence, 60 years.
While I'm glad that this guy (the one who murdered my friend) will be locked away, I've come to the conclusion that prisons neither punish nor rehabilitate criminals. That needs to change.
1 down about 100,000 to go
I like that song.
Johnny - It seems to me that our justice system is full of inconsistencies.
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