Lockerbie Logic extended

[Brodirt]

If the stories of Madoff having pancreatic cancer are true shouldn't we let Bernie go immediately?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08242009/news/nationalnews/bernie_dying_in_jail_186175.htm

 

[The Nid Hog]

To Libya?

 

[Kratos]

There's no doubt as to Madoff's guilt. The bomber wasn't so cut and dry. There's a good possibility he was just the sacrificial lamb. In any case there are far less politics involved. If he does have pancreatic cancer, well, as ye sow, so shall ye reap.

 

[Live2Ride]

This just in from Reuters...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street super-swindler Bernard Madoff has not been diagnosed with cancer, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday, knocking down a tabloid report that Madoff told fellow prison inmates that he was dying.

The New York Post reported that Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 20-year sentence at a North Carolina federal prison, told inmates he does not have long to live. The paper cited unnamed prison sources.

Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley initially told Reuters the story was "full of inaccuracies."

 

[RazorDingo]

If the stories of Madoff having pancreatic cancer are true shouldn't we let Bernie go immediately?l

The difference is that, unlike Scotland, there is no provision in US law for the compassionate release of an inmate.

One may well argue that, in some cases there ought to be. Over the coming decades the cost of housing, and providing medical care for, a huge number of elderly inmates, is going to cause tremendous strains to both State and Federal corrections budgets. At some point society has to balance the financial costs of our "no compassion" policy against the public's demand for retribution against inmates who, by any real definition, are too sick and old to pose any sort of threat.

Lastly, I must confess to a certain amount of confusion over the United States government's professed outrage over the release of al Megrahi.

I think there is little doubt that the person most responsible for the Lockerbie bombing is the leader of Libya: Muammar Gaddafi. And yet, less than two weeks ago, a US Congressional delegation, including Sen. John McCain was in Libya, meeting with Gaddafi:

''We discussed the possibility of moving ahead with the provision of non-lethal defense equipment to the government of Libya,'' McCain said at a news conference.

At the end of WWII we prosecuted Nazi war criminals for "just following orders." Yet we would not have done so, while at the same time meeting and negotiating with the leaders who had given those illegal orders.

 

[Obsessed]

To Libya?

Interesting idea . . .

 

[JBLAZE725]

The difference is that, unlike Scotland, there is no provision in US law for the compassionate release of an inmate.

One may well argue that, in some cases there ought to be. Over the coming decades the cost of housing, and providing medical care for, a huge number of elderly inmates, is going to cause tremendous strains to both State and Federal corrections budgets. At some point society has to balance the financial costs of our "no compassion" policy against the public's demand for retribution against inmates who, by any real definition, are too sick and old to pose any sort of threat.

Lastly, I must confess to a certain amount of confusion over the United States government's professed outrage over the release of al Megrahi.

I think there is little doubt that the person most responsible for the Lockerbie bombing is the leader of Libya: Muammar Gaddafi. And yet, less than two weeks ago, a US Congressional delegation, including Sen. John McCain was in Libya, meeting with Gaddafi:



At the end of WWII we prosecuted Nazi war criminals for "just following orders." Yet we would not have done so, while at the same time meeting and negotiating with the leaders who had given those illegal orders.

I think that with the state that our economy is in and certain convicts possibly meritting the possibility of being released early I may agree with you, but have to say that it would cause many difficulties in choosing who to let go and the turdstorm that would occur if one of these inmates released comitted a horrible crime after being released would be massive. That said Madoff stays in jail.

 

[Fnord5]

You can beat me.
You can Kill me.
But do not touch my wallet.

 

[philamac]

Remember Ernest Saunders?

Sentenced to several years in prison for a massive business fraud as one of the 'Guinness Four', Saunders soon began to show the symptoms of Alzheimers disease, which is incurable. Ernest was released early after serving 10 months because of his illness.

Soon after his 1991 release Ernest made a full recovery. I think he still works as a business consultant

 

[Spacegeezer]

One major reason you can't have "compassionate release" of criminals in the U.S.A. is because you probably getter better government-funded healthcare in prison than out.