14 years is far too long a sentence for something that's not especially serious or premeditated. If you fire-and-Brimstone Old Testament dudes insist in doling out 14 years jailtime for this guy,----who is barely merely a common garden-variety asshole, and not a legitimate threat to society-------- then murderers and child-molesters are surely worthy of recieving 99 years [and that MEANS 99 calender years, with no looney, senseless time reductions] .

At this rate, the jails would soon fill up, so harsh, back-to-basics Victorian-style punishments of bread and water only, harsh unpaid labor, brutalized conditions, etc, must be implemented and sustained to act as a REAL detterent against jail in the first place.




Overcrowding in jail problem sorted, and cost-effective, to boot [prisoners work as unpaid slaves to fund the jail system: no burden on taxpayer].


End result: fear of crime and subsequent reduction, and most misery endured only by certified maniacs and wierdos, etc, in the slammer for 99 years. Everyone else doesn't give a shit about them, and society continues, without great fear of crime, unabated.



SORTED



BiProduct Problem: Possible Formation of Police State as a result of effective reduction in crime.