Quote Originally Posted by Unchained View Post
Problem with that is that there has to be accountability for an action. You can't just say "I am straight now-please wipe the slate clean". Yeah the timing sucks,but it is what it is. In a perfect world,officials will consider what he has done as of late and give probation/go lean,but that also is what it is. I hear so much about how many Americans are locked up,but truth be told,we are missing many that should be. We paroled a killer a few months ago from my pod at work. This guy laughed at us as we took him to the gate. Weeks later he killed an innocent family whom he was jacking,and 3 more died because a judge went soft. There are two ways at looking at this folks
We arent talking about murderers or violent offenders. No one ive ever spoken with advocates violent offenders being given extra leniency or anything.

It doesnt matter how much the judge wants to cut someone a break, a felony conviction is on their record. What kinda job can a person get with a felony conviction? No decent ones.
Theres a huge difference between simple accountability and common sense. A person like Cedric, a young person who is only 21-22 years old, is being punished for a mistake he made at least 2 years ago, a mistake that gave no other person any physical harm, and it doesnt matter what he has done since. How can a person in Ceds situation afford a great lawyer to get him a better deal? How can he possibly fight this? His name was in the newspaper with other federal indictments. No one around here forgets this kind of stuff.

It comes down to this; if Cedric gets a felony conviction on his record, his life will likely go down a dangerous path out of neccessity. No one wants to give a felon a job, and prison turns non-violent offenders into violent offenders to survive. This is not a little conviction, a misdemeanor that he can skate from and his life goes on, this is a FEDERAL indictment. His life will never be the same. How anyone can support this system I will never know.