Prediction: Assuming Switzerland extradites (not a slam dunk), Polanski gets time served.

Then deported.

Which, for anyone who actually knows anything about the case (which, apparently, includes none of you), is funny (I'd say ironic, but you're Americans).

violation of 18 U.S.C. 1073.

He'll be out in 3, if he doesn't die of old age or a shanking.

Maybe you should.

Of course, you were just following orders.

a lot of that increase was related to drug use, possession and sales. I think we should consider out-patient care, house arrest and other alternatives to incarceration for non-violent drug offenders.

Not that that has anything to do with crimes of violence or fugitives.

to make examples of fugitives from justice.

Please don't use the word "reason". You don't know what it means.

If anybody really cared about sexual violence against adolescents, we wouldn't have to read this.

I agree that sexual violence should be reduced in prisons.

I agree that our prison population should be reduced with respect to non-violent drug offenders, who should be placed under house arrest or treated in out-patient care.

But I can't agree with your soft-hearted/headed approach to sex crimes and fugitives.

You agree, you agree, you agree...So what?

Who fucking cares what a twit agrees with?

Your solution is to throw more people in prison.

but you are not.

That's why what I think about it matters, but what you think about it doesn't so much.