Sentencing Disparities Debate
Cluster focuses on debates about excessively harsh prison sentences for non-violent crimes like hacking and fraud, often comparing them to lighter sentences for violent crimes such as murder or rape.
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4.5 years is a really long time. Ridiculous US sentencing habits might be affecting your calibration for how seriously this offense is being taken.
7 years is a very harsh sentence for a non-violent crime.
Years in prison is not a slap on the wrist.
I feel like it is a little unfair comparing the number of years someone is sentenced and going to jail for and the number of years someone could go to jail for if they are found guilty and receive the max sentence.(Perhaps people don't think the hacker did anything that should be considered a crime worthy of a sentence that long, but that's a totally different argument)
5 years in jail seems a bit of an overreaction.
this is a pretty harsh potential sentence. damn . he may spend more time behind bars than SBF or even many murders, rapists, etc.
I always thought the sentence was too extreme, he broke some laws he should do some time. Not life without parole.
Jail seems a little extreme, the punishment doesn't fit the crime here.
Sure, why else give him a 150 year prison sentence? I am only 49% joking.
Should be life imprisonment really, not just a few bad years.