The lie of home detention

[Oh_hunnihunni]

They know more because they are in that position?  Not necessarily.  Liberal sentencing comes from a liberal view point and leads to more people doing crimes, increased judicial spending and bursting prisons leads to the need to do more and more HD.  A person convicted of violent crime is not put on HD with an ability to go into the workplace.

No. They know more about the case before them than we do, because they hear all the evidence from all involved, which we do not. The gap between their opinion and ours is huge.

Which I guess is why they get the big bucks and we get gossip.

As for liberal sentencing leading to more crimes, I'm guessing you and I might agree on bringing back the death penalty for some...