Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted clemency this week to the two convicted officials.
I thing that’s the issue, there is no way that the kids-for-cash judge did not cause harm to thousands of children. While he may not have used violence, he certainly caused it and harmed literal children.
We as a society need to really think more critically about what counts as violent crime. Ordering some to juvi/prison for money is violent in my books.
I get that there were 1500 of them, but pardons/commutations should get a closer look than this.
So, they were non-violent offenders on house arrest, presumably all of these people were following the terms of their conviction.
That said, whoever compiled the list should have raised a flag on the ones that had many many victims.
I thing that’s the issue, there is no way that the kids-for-cash judge did not cause harm to thousands of children. While he may not have used violence, he certainly caused it and harmed literal children.
We as a society need to really think more critically about what counts as violent crime. Ordering some to juvi/prison for money is violent in my books.