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Fifteen years! FIFTEEN YEARS! Unless I missed something in the article this wasn't a violent crime, these people didn't hold up the place at gunpoint, how on earth is a fifteen year sentence for this crime justified? I like to think I believe in being tough on crime but this is ridiculous! I can't see justifying more than five years in prison for pretty much any nonviolent crime. Use a weapon, injure, kill, or threaten a persons life or well being, then yeah fifteen years is good. While it is wrong to help yourself to someone else's property there has to be a punishment commensurate with the crime. Now I could see three to five years for this crime, but fifteen years? Make the punishment fit the crime, this doesn't come close to fitting.
I don't care to be spending that much tax money on prisons to house people for ridiculously excessive amounts of time for things like this. Save it for the violent criminals.
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