Not a lot of difference between juvi and prison anymore, kids are way more dangerous than adults. In fact if I remember correctly for a few years in the 90's Mt Miegs had a higher mortality rate than any other facility in the state.
But yes some were tried as adults and back out in less than a year for murder
If you've ever dealt with the court system much you realize what a joke it is
The courts like to roll 8-10 pending cases into 1 for a plea deal and do split sentences with time served or very little extra and it don't take much of a lawyer to make sure hat happen.
If it's cases that don't get much media attention they have no potential for a prosecutor/DA to make points for election/reelection or to use as power points for some benefit later so let's just wrap it all up and give 10 split time served cause I'm sure that young man learned his lesson after sitting in jail a month or to on each charge.
What he learned was that the system was broken
Yes, it happens every day. I knew a young man once that got 2 years probation for attempted murder of a police officer the young man had 13 prior felony convictions for drug, weapons and one other attempted murder case. Kid shoulda been doing life as a habitual offender long before he got bold enough to want to kill a cop
Prisons are full stupid stuff happens
The cases that get high profile attention are made examples of for show/ political gain
Most of the rest are swept away
Cops in cities like Birmingham and bigger put the same people in jail over and over for the same stuff usually until the get killed on the street, justice is just an idea.
If you don't believe that, I'm sticking with that none to little experience thought.
Last edited by hoggin; 12/30/17 04:53 AM.
