Do criminals do jail time for crimes they've committed?

[sage2021]

It seems criminals aren't doing jail time even for murder. Is there any place in America 🇺🇲 where criminals do long term jail sentences anymore or is not going to jail that way in every State!🤷🏼‍♀️

[exitseven]

It depends. You can kill a citizen and get released for no bail or walk illegally into the country and just be relocared to someplace else. \

If you protested the stolen election you got to jail for ten years.

[sage2021]

@exitseven Oh, I get it now. I thought I had it right, but your opinion clarified what is really going on. Thanks for setting me straight! And just when I thought I had the down low on the law. Hummm... who knew?

[Twalli]

Protesting is one thing, breaking into The Capitol is something else. Protest in your own city, and don't break into any buildings, also don't attack anybody. Nobody cares.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Surely]

The criminals only seem to do time in non Democratic controlled states!
Mid term elections are near!

[Surely]

Thank you for the MHO.

[OlderAndWiser]

Florida is not going easy on crime. Gov. DeSantis removed a chief prosecutor in Tampa for insisting that he would not enforce certain laws with which the prosecutor personally disagreed.

[sage2021]

@Are criminals doing normal prison sentences, like life in prison, etc?

[OlderAndWiser]

Yes, we haven't changed our laws or the way we enforce them.

[KrakenAttackin]

@OlderAndWiser. I support a tough stance on crime but some states go overboard, including GA, LA, and MS. GA has some very unfriendly defendant rules, such as the state only has to produce it's evidence no more than. 10 days prior to trial.

[WindAtMyBack]

If they are convicted sentences are pretty long. First degree murder is more than twice as long as second degree. Actual time served can be much shorter than the sentence. But time served for murder is still several years. Rape is even higher. Minor crimes might only be a few days or a few weeks.

If I remember right, only about 3% of crimes end in a conviction. That's all crimes though. I don't know the percent of serious crimes that end in conviction, but I'm sure it's more than the average.

[BeMuse]

Stay out of the woke cities or overthrow the woke city governments and fix your shit...

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1566153239296413696

[Jenny-Marie]

As a rough guide, the prison population in the US is nearly 7 times greater per capita (737 per 100,000 population) than the England and Wales (148 per 100,000 population). In fact, the US is about the same as Russia (615) and China (118) combined. The US, is responsible for close on 25% of the world's incarcerated population.

[MrOracle]

The US also has FAR more immigration (legal and especially illegal) than any other country, by a considerable margin.

When you take in large numbers of immigrants at once, they don't assimilate, and when you have multiple different cultures, there is conflict, and when you have multiple groups that were already in conflict before they came in your country, you're going to have more conflict.

Realize that a government that pushes to defund police, that allows rioters to riot continuously for over a year (and declines to prosecute most of the rioters), and even raises money to bail out rioters, isn't a government that is trying to solve crime. Rather, it's encouraging it.

A government that is actively encouraging illegal immigration is not looking to solve problems, and are directly violating their oath of office.

[Jenny-Marie]

@MrOracle You are forgetting one thing. The USA is comprised of immigrants. You may recall that the indigenous population was what we now call ethnically cleansed, so it is rather an own goal to blame immigrants.
Secondly, what percentage of the black population moved to the US by choice. Have you forgotten about slavery and the horrendous treatment of those slaves?
The UK doesn't have clean hands with regard to slavery in our ex-colonies either.
Perhaps, rather than blaming immigration you should blame the judicial culture and extreme racism in many places.
Also look at the original question which mentioned the lack of incarceration.

[MrOracle]

I've forgotten nothing. Have you forgotten that the immigration laws have changed since the 1880s? And that you are intentionally conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration? You've only reinforced my point.

Want to know who is most against illegal immigrants? It's LEGAL immigrants! The people who played by the rules and waited years for their opportunity. The same people who commit 13 times LESS violent crime compared to the illegal immigrants.

You failed to address the main point, though: you can't take in huge numbers of immigrants all at once and not have conflicting cultures that lead to violence. Immigration is only successful if it happens slowly over time, so that the immigrants assimilate the new culture.

[Aerolyn]

This is the kind of question that makes me take off my glasses just to see better.

[Jamie05rhs]

No, they aren't! And this is why I support the death penalty. You can't let 'em back out on the streets if they're dead!!

[CloudMassacre]

I don’t understand how the US can have the highest prison population, but people think we’re soft on crime

[sage2021]

@CloudMassacre I think we might have had the highest prison population in the past, but not anymore. In my State they released 47,000 prisoner's last year to do damage on our citizens. If you look at just the smash and grab criminals alone, breaking into stores and robbing the stores of millions in jewelry and they just let them keep doing this everyday and no jail time.
Yes, we are soft on crime in America 🇺🇲. We are so soft, we've turned into a softy ice cream cone from the ice cream store. I wouldn't say we are soft on crime. - more like we don't even have crimes anymore. They get away with horrifying violent stuff, but the powers-that-be don't accuse anyone of a crime, because you can do anything here and get away with it. It is so wrong, yet no one stops any of it. This makes me sick to my stomach!

[CloudMassacre]

I looked up the current numbers and we have about 350,000 more people in prison than the next highest China

[Agagagagaga]

Well we have drugs and Mexican cartels through China (cough cough) flooding our nation with illegal drugs, resulting in more convicts.

I’m not saying you can’t get drugs in China but in the US they are everywhere. You’re going to get more arrests and convictions from it.

[sage2021]

@CloudMassacre I saw on the news today that we have seized 10,000 pounds of fentanyl so far this year. Not a word about what happened to the people that carried them across our border.

[cloud9vortex1234]

I don't know where your getting your information, but they still imprison people for murder in the U. S.

[Fuentes]

The issue is the liberal judges giving them low bails and bonds to get out but once they're sentenced they stay in for along time.

[SmokinAces2000]

Where are your sources that led you to believe this?

[OddBeMe]

Not sure where you're getting your info from. With dna, more people are going to jail for murder.

[KrakenAttackin]

In the South we have plenty of criminals doing hard time.

[MrTaboo]

Yes plenty of places. You just have to get away from liberal Democrate run cities and states.

[FunkyMonkee]

Not in Joe world!!

[Snakeyes7]

It really depends on the situation.

[Anonymous]

Most do, but some get off scot free.

[Anonymous]

not anymore... bail reform

[worldscolide]

They do in Kansas.

[worldscolide]

Gotta remember, the bluer the state the nicer they are to criminals, to the point where criminals have more rights than regular citizens.