LGBTQ+ groups are hailing the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks
I find this sentence inadequate. This is a waste of space in a prison. People who don’t pose a physical threat shouldn’t be moved to a prison. They should be mandated to pay the person they hurt and be forced into therapy to work out the source of their behaviour. Mind you, up until recently I lived in Ireland where dangerous criminals don’t get put into prison, because there’s no space left, so I have that bias. Sentencing him to 60 days away from the society neither compensates the victim nor helps him amend his ways. It could even have him double down through enstrangement and further develop siege mentality.
I find this sentence inadequate. This is a waste of space in a prison. People who don’t pose a physical threat shouldn’t be moved to a prison. They should be mandated to pay the person they hurt and be forced into therapy to work out the source of their behaviour. Mind you, up until recently I lived in Ireland where dangerous criminals don’t get put into prison, because there’s no space left, so I have that bias. Sentencing him to 60 days away from the society neither compensates the victim nor helps him amend his ways. It could even have him double down through enstrangement and further develop siege mentality.