Martha Stewart

I just had to put my two cents in on this one.  See, Martha is now going to appeal her 5 month sentence.  People seem to be of the mind that she should just give up and accept it.  I don't know why they think this, I am pretty sure that if they themselves had the means to continue such a legal battle that they would.  But this is not what I am here to talk about. 

In my opinion, she should not have any jail time.  Why on earth should a person that is not a danger to society be locked away from it at the expense of tax payers?  From what I have heard, her sentence has already been reduced by turning some of it into community service.  I believe she will have to teach classes to women on how to start small businesses.  That is how I think the system should operate.  (btw, so does my mother; the conversation I recently had with her about this is what inspired me to write this blog)  Martha ought to be fined for committing a financial crime and then be sentenced to a certain amount of community service.  In that way, she pays off her debt to society.  Sentencing such people to jail time actually seems to me to work just the opposite.  We hope that the criminal will "learn their lesson", but at our expense.  Backward.  It is backward. 

So yes, it is my opinion that she should not be in jail at all.  From what I heard they hardly fined her.  She should be fined more, perhaps made to do more community service hours (though maybe not, I don't know how many she has to do already), and she should not go to jail.