Thank you very much. I made a few notes, and few of us would ever get ourselves into the position of committing a crime in the first place. This is the example I use for people who think that very minor crimes....
I recall dealing with a lady who had her mailbox smashed. In the course of criminal justice that's no big deal. She was insistent that the police officer come to see her mailbox that had been smashed, so I was the lucky person to go to interview her. Most people would think it was no big deal, except that the mailbox had been tole painted by her recently deceased aunt and was all she had to remember her by. So where we might all be worried that this was just a young person who did something stupid after he had a couple of beers, this is something that sticks with people.
There aren't a lot of people who win the lottery while they're in jail. There aren't a lot of people who will have these kinds of judgments. But to the average citizen out there, who deals with their life, day in and day out, and they see people who have been incarcerated and not been made responsible for the things that we, as average citizens, are responsible for, vis-Ă -vis spousal support.... You know, a lot of the folks who go to jail aren't really nice people, and sometimes they aren't very nice to their children and to their wives or husbands. So I think this assists them in being more responsible.
Would you not agree?