Bombarded
by the TV commercials, many youngsters want to have those brand name items. Not
only are they expense, but also in fashion. Teenagers in Brazil must think that
if they can simply steal the products, why work to buy them? Besides, they will
not go to jail, just to a correction house where they can only stay for maximum
three years; easy way to live. Then again they are pretty fast, usually
outrunning the police. Sometimes when caught, their mothers beg the police to
let them go. Depending on the crime committed, the police give into the plea.
However, if they are sent to the correction home, when they turn eighteen they
are set free with a clean criminal record and new tricks up their sleeves that
they have learned with the other inmates.
Some citizens defend that the age a
person can go to jail should be lowered to sixteen. But that really does not
make a big difference because sometimes the delinquent is as young as ten years
of age or younger. Usually these youngsters are working for adults who do not
commit the crime for the simple fact that they will be convicted if they are
caught. But then again, the maximum time and adult can stay in prison is thirty
years.
Now, analyzing the how long a person
can stay in jail seems like very little depending on the crime committed. There
was a case that happened in 1991 where an actor killed a mistress, who also
happened to be an actress, with a pair of scissors on his wife’s demand. They
were condemned to thirty years in prison, however, due to good behavior; they
were set free after a couple of years. Because it was the only crime they had
committed, they were able to clean their criminal records. They moved to other
states in the country. Both went to law school, married other people and are
living happy lives. What about the family of the victim? They have to live with
this pain for the rest of their lives.
It just seems so unfair. An eye for
an eye sounds like a good way to deal with these criminals. However, most of
the criminals are really young and just need to be taught what is ethical. It
seems like their family are the streets. They take another person’s life as if
they were playing a video game. The grab cell phones from people’s hands, rip
off people’s necklaces, and go into places like restaurants, buses and even
churches and just steal everyone there. Where are the parents? Where is the
police? Where is the government? Where is the love?
The answers to these questions are
riddles that the simple human mind can not work out.
(April 10,
2014)
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