why are people rewarded for attempted murder?

Question

if someone kills someone they get life in prison when some one attempts to kill some one but they dont succeed they get rewarded for not succeeding by getting a light sentence? in my oppinion a person who attempts murders and fails is just as dangerous as someone who attempts a murdur and succeeds?i want to remind people our prisons were not built to punish people but to keep the public safe and since people who attempt murder are just as dangerous as murderers why not treat them equally?

Answer 1

yes i totally agree with you, it seems to me the people that do the more serious crimes get very little time in jail (prison) while the petty thief gets more time. whoa! what gives here?
why won't they give the more serious ones more jail time other than the other way around.
sometimes the judges are wrong also, not just the little people,
what about the justice system.??

Answer 2

By your logic a man who has sex with a woman should pay child support, even if the woman never gets pregnant.

Prisons are built to house convicted criminals until they have served their time, not to salve your sour outlook.

Answer 3

i want to remind people our prisons were not built to punish people but to keep the public safe

i find that to be a very niave statement, prisons were built for both but 'public safety' is second to 'prisoner punishment' if they weren't meant for punishment as you stated, prisoners wouldn't mind going nearly as much. there wouldn't be a code of prisoner conduct with set punishments for violations of said conduct. there wouldn't be hoops to jump through just to have a family member visit or staff for opening and checking every piece of mail for excessive amount of stamps (20 is the limit for chillicothe mo womens)or pictures (5 as long as they are not polaroids or similar) there wouldn't be a limit on the amount of money that you are allowed to have on account or spend in the commisary or limits on the number of items you can buy on commisary. example of those limits: 2 pouches of coffee, 1 box of sugar cubes,10 pcks of cigerettes OR 5 pouches of rolling tobacco with 1 pck of rolling papers, 1 single bladed safety razor once a moth (only during particular week at staff descretion) that. one some units, must be sent to the housing unit by commisary staff until you want to use it and then surrendered back to the officer within a set time frame of when you signed it out, IF the officer wants to unlock storage closet and get it out for you. there wouldn't be a designated day for each person to pick up their weekly supply of toilet paper (2 rolls) and 1 bar of lye soap and i package of sanitary napkins, the soap and the sanitary's are only once a month and if you should need more like most women do, you have to ask an officer and if he has time he'll get them, after you hand over the empty package. since those packages have 14 in them and its a frequent request you do have the option of filling out a msr (medical service request) and after med posts you name and appointment time (usually between 2-5 days) you can get a standing med order for up to three pcks a month but the second and third have to gotten from med building, which you can go to if you get a pass from or at certain times are escorted to by and officer. not turning in any unused from the second and/or third pck or an empty pkg is a violation and extra duty the first time a weeks room restriction, no visits and no commisary for two weeks. if it wasn't punishment it wouldn't be degrading and humiliating strip searches complete with the 'squat & cough three times and spread 'em' at any time someone wants and there wouldn't be an officer (especially a male) standing in front of your door when your woken up in the middle of the night for a random urine test, watching you dress to make sure your not hiding something. no punishments woud be coming to you if you have more than one blanket, two sheets,1 pillow case and 1 pillow on your bed, doesn't matter that the rooms at chilli are cold due to the ancient windows that the wind blows through and it certainly doesn't matter when that wind blows the snow through those cracks onto the window seals. you would be allowed to hold your child on lap or sit closer than the ten inches allowed to your spouse. prison is punishment for a crime that was committed by the prisoner, not too many innocents there, punishment and reform. you put your child in a corner or in a time out chair for doing something wrong, experts say about 1 - 1 1/2 per year of age if i remember right and hope that that punishment was enough for them no to do it again, in theory. prisons are the corners that society and the courts send someone to for wrong doings for punishment and, in theory, reform. if it wasn't punishment i wouldn;t have spent the four years i there couting the days til i could get out. i wouldn't have missed have my childrens lives, i wouldn't have trouble finding a job in society where i can use the time i spent in vocational training rather than having a min. wage job that will never take me any where. i never knew that any conviction for a felony negates so many things after your time is done, after you were punished. things such as voting, license for emt after the classes are taken and hours spent, working any where that requires employees to be bonded, including storage wharhouses, even getting job to work in a convienence store that sells lottery tickets. hindsight huh? i was punished, and i should have been. no excuses or whining or self pity, just the cold hard truth. it is punishment, but no one really realizes when they go in and come out as a successfully 'reformed' person, one who grew up, learned the lesson and used the time spent to get an education first ged and then several vocational classes, that the punishment continues, even after your time is served and parole is done, 7 years done for me. no one thinks about it, i did't, it follows you for a lifetime, this punishment, every where you go it's there, just incase you forget, just waiting, and it's never over. if prisons weren't meant for punishment they wouldn't be so hard to get out of, to get over and to get past. some may think that they weren't meant for punishment but then again some thought the trojan horse was truly a gift and say 'i never thought it could happen to me/them/here ect..' until something bad happens.its a punishment first, sadly it is a needed punishment. being held responsible for your actions is something we teach our children from the time they are old enough to understand right from wrong and the consequences. if that lesson is'nt learned in childhood or learned and forgotten or even learned and then willingly discarded, then society has to act and that action includes punishment as it should. it's the things that go on in the doc that should't and the fact that it's never over for you or your family that needs some work. just some thoughts.

Answer 4

wow .... seriously good point.

Answer 5

good point.