On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:04:41 -0500, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:53 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > Firstly, Phil wasn't in prison. Certainly the US governments undue > > harassment of him was a great burden on him, but it is not nearly as > > harsh as prison would have been. > > That's a common misconception, prison would have actually been far > easier for his classification type. He probably would have gone to > minimum custody and work release right off the bat. Not being able to > pay rent nor eat would have been worse. <g> The stuff you see on TV is > mostly Maximum-Custody for the purely pathological. Only a few live like > that when you consider that 2.7 million are locked up. The vast majority > serve time in Medium or Minimum custody. Those will be released if they > keep their noses clean, so they do. Ric Since some people wanted to make an example of him, it isn't clear that he would go to a minimum security prison. If he tried that stunt today, he'd end up in Gitmo without anyone knowing what happened to him.
