[Peace-discuss] But they didn't kill him, Champaign-style...

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Incarcerating people is big business.



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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:08 AM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] But they didn't kill him, Champaign-style...


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> http://animalnewyork.com/2009/12/texas-graffiti-writer-gets-8-years-of-prison-without-parole/
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> Another Texas teenager is being inordinately punished for graffiti. 18-
> year-old Sebastian Perez was sentenced to 8 years in state prison
> after pleading guilty to three vandalism charges and one for pot
> possession.
>
> Unlike fellow writer Ralph Mirabel, who was given eight years by
> another Corpus Christi judge in August, Perez must serve his entire
> sentence with no possibility of parole. Despite the defendant’s
> probation plea and promise “to finish high school, help clean up
> graffiti and find a job,” State District Judge Marisela Saldaña doled
> out an emotional lecture and the maximum possible sentence for what
> amounted to roughly $7,300 in damage, according to the Corpus Christi
> Caller-Times. But that’s small change compared to the more than
> $140,000 Texas taxpayers will shell out to keep Perez locked up so long.
>
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