Just how focked up is the Jamaican Justice System?

[Lazie]

Man on gun charges get probation .... meanwhile ..


Corned beef thief gets 30 days at hard labour
Michael McLean, Santa Cruz
A 20-year-old man who reportedly stole a seven ounce tin of corned beef from a Supermarket in Santa Cruz St Elizabeth will have to spend the next month behind bars.
Clive Young of Farm District, Clarendon and Burnt Savannah District in St Elizabeth was sentenced to 30 days at hard labour after he pleaded guilty to simple larceny. Young appeared in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court before RM Dionne Meyler-Reid on Tuesday.
The Court heard that on December 4, Young went to a supermarket about 11:30 a.m. where he stole the corned beef and was caught. The Santa Cruz Police were called in and Young was

[Mosiah]

madness!

[MdmeX]

Madness fi true - I guess the RM trying to seh she "tough".

Those kind of laws should be eradicated from the books.

[Mosiah]

Why didn't she sentence the gang leader found with 2 illegal guns? She woulda haffi heng him!

[Peter R]

What should the sentence be?

[MdmeX]

She could have him do community service.

[Peter R]

I was going to suggest he do some labour for the shopkeeper he stole from... time enough to compensate and then some... jail and "hard labour" doesn't sound right...unless he has prior history.