Actually, I was just asking. I don't know enough about our penal system to have an accurate answer.
My first instinct though, is that a longer jail sentence will not fix their tendancy to hurt animals. It will only remove the problem temporarily.
I don't want to come across as a bleeding heart either. I'd like them to have a longer sentence because this bothers me so much, but, in reality do people even serve the full 6 months? Does the system have programs designed to help, or does prison make people angrier than when they went in?
If prison won't help them, and psychiatric help won't fix them, what's the solution? Or are we looking at the beginning of a lifetime of in and out of jail, with each subsequent act even more depraved?
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