Only in America

[jasonu]

Also from the US. 3,318 years plus life without parole.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11503618

That is a good thing innit?

[Big Dog]

Better hope he is not a believer in reincarnation... imagine that. Pulled straight out of his mother and our back in his cell on a groundhog day type loop fort the next 400 odd lives.

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[Big Dog]

That is a good thing innit?

I saw a documentary a while back on a prison that allows inmates to trade time in the saddle generating electricity on a bicycle for time served.

Over of the dudes had done enough electricity generating to get 10 years knocked off a double life sentence.

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[Banditbandit]

Also from the US. 3,318 years plus life without parole. In NZ, he would still be eligible to apply for parole after a third of his sentance.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11503618

here the minimum non-parole period for murder is 10 years ... a convict must do at least that - not "one third" as you suggest. 17 years is the minimun non-parole period for serious offences, but judges can lengthen that if they believe it is justified

William Bell (Panmure RSA) got 33 years non-parole, but that was reduced to 30 years on appeal. He won't be eligible to ask for parole until 2031 ... and even then he may not get it ..

Here, that US killer may well get preventative detention ... "we will let you out when we get around to it - sometime next century ..."

New Zealand's longest serving prisoner, Alfred Vincent, was convicted of pedophile offences in 1968 - he remains behind bars today ... after 47 years in jail ...

Don't believe everything the media or the sensible sentencing trust tells you ..

[husaberg]

I saw a documentary a while back on a prison that allows inmates to trade time in the saddle generating electricity on a bicycle for time served.

Over of the dudes had done enough electricity generating to get 10 years knocked off a double life sentence.

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If that were China they would use the electricity to knock a few years of their life.
Seriously though maybe the would work in getting them motivated to make a change.

[Big Dog]

If that were China they would use the electricity to knock a few years of their life.
Seriously though maybe the would work in getting them motivated to make a change.

All of the cons in the program seemed real motivated about getting out at first. But as the changes necessary to spend more time in the saddle of a stationary bike as many hours as possible in the desert came thorough there were some real break through moments.
Some gave up heroin, ciggies, drinking and other behalte that got then in prison in the first place just to keep their place on the team. Only 12 bicycles. You stop peddling at a pace for to long there is a queue of guys wanting your seat.

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[husaberg]

All of the cons in the program seemed real motivated about getting out at first. But as the changes necessary to spend more time in the saddle of a stationary bike as many hours as possible in the desert came thorough there were some real break through moments.
Some gave up heroin, ciggies, drinking and other behalte that got then in prison in the first place just to keep their place on the team. Only 12 bicycles. You stop peddling at a pace for to long there is a queue of guys wanting your seat.

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Oddly ironic that a lot of the professional cyclists did that in reverse order.

\IN all seriousness though the cycle for time seems to be a great idea though to motivate.

[Big Dog]

Iirc. The program sells what they generate to the grid. On days that all 12 bikes run the whole available 6 out of 8 hours each bicycle powers an average American house.

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[awa355]

here the minimum non-parole period for murder is 10 years ... a convict must do at least that - not "one third" as you suggest. 17 years is the minimun non-parole period for serious offences, but judges can lengthen that if they believe it is justified

William Bell (Panmure RSA) got 33 years non-parole, but that was reduced to 30 years on appeal. He won't be eligible to ask for parole until 2031 ... and even then he may not get it ..

Here, that US killer may well get preventative detention ... "we will let you out when we get around to it - sometime next century ..."

New Zealand's longest serving prisoner, Alfred Vincent, was convicted of pedophile offences in 1968 - he remains behind bars today ... after 47 years in jail ...

Don't believe everything the media or the sensible sentencing trust tells you ..

My post was a light hearted poke at him only serving 1,000 years before parole IF under NZ laws. I am well aware of the rules around eligibility in NZ.