California Law

[Archon_Wing]

But here is what came before;
Jake a normal hardworking american smokes some mariuana.
Police start bothering him and while getting beat up Jake uses some swear words.
Jake gets sentenced to 5 years in prison.
In prison Jake gets raped, beaten up, and starts doing the same things to other people as well after 4 years of mental abuse by both wardens and fellow inmates.
Jake get released but of course cannot go back to his reasonably paid job he had before.
Jake, mentally completely messed up after 5 years of prison decides to rob a bank.
and this is where your story started.
As in Docs numerous death sentence threads. Using punishment as revenge might give us a good feeling for a while, but in the end will come back at us. Harsh punishments are OK, but at least make sure prisons are fair and do not make thinsg worse.

Ah, but you see... if Jake didn't get raped and beaten up by other immates, because there was an active attempt to stop them from commiting those crimes in prison, most of it wouldn't happen, eh?