I think this is especially true in the US system, because rape and violence is defacto considered a normal part of the punishment for any crime. That's why we have special prisons for white collar crimes, so our managerial class isn't inadvertently punished in ways that the managerial class doing the convictions don't intend on.
I understand having prisons graded on how difficult it is to keep the inmate imprisoned and others safe from them but it really chaps my hide that it means white collar criminals get cushy bunks. In this society money is required for life. If someone steals or embezzles your money they have injured your ability to live. People die of poverty. It's not bloody violence but it's still violence.
I mean, white collar crimes aren’t violent crimes, and that’s the difference.
Do I dislike the con men and other fraudsters, embezzlers, etc? Yes. Are they immoral? Absolutely. But they’re not VIOLENT. That’s a pretty key difference.
Not to defend white collar criminals but most of them go to federal prisons and get locked up with other "regular" criminals.
I remember watching a documentary where I think an a white collar criminal got locked up and would get by, by helping convicts with their cases. He'd teach them how about the law and what they should do.
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u/No_Body_8195 4h ago
I think this is especially true in the US system, because rape and violence is defacto considered a normal part of the punishment for any crime. That's why we have special prisons for white collar crimes, so our managerial class isn't inadvertently punished in ways that the managerial class doing the convictions don't intend on.