There is no justice in putting a 72-year-old man in prison for pretty much the rest of his life over tax evasion.
The appropriate punishment, first of all, he's going to cost the taxpayer a fortune because now this is a man who has a bunch of health issues, so medical is expensive in prison, and then on top of that, you have to house him.
It costs $30,000 a month to house a federal inmate in a camp plus medical.
Now, you do the math there. It is so much better to put this man in some sort of community custody, which means he does community service, which is punishment enough for a man of his means.
He's earning taxes by working and continuing to pay and become a contributing member of society, and you put him on some kind of curfew where you have to be home at a certain time of day with an ankle monitor on.
And I think that's the appropriate custody for somebody like that, right? I think they learned their lesson, but unfortunately, we have overzealous judges that are just slapping people with insane sentences, and that's what I'm trying to work is to change the criminal justice system to obviously have deterrence, but not create a punitive system and focus more on the rehabilitory system.
That's what I'm going for, Heather. If that clears your mind, I hope.
I think the clarification, one, it makes total sense what you're saying, and quite frankly, I learned something new because I didn't realize that these horrific conditions were for what some would consider lower level or maybe nonviolent crimes kind of thing.
I was reading when you were putting them out weekly, and I'm forgetting the name of the- South Shore Press. Yes, correct.
