After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
> "Caging me for a decade is not rehabilitating. I may be making excuses for myself, though there is a lesson that could have been learned with the same amount of value for justice if the sentence was 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, even 6 years." From the article at: <a href="https://forklog.media/ex-convicted-hacker-ghostexodus-severity-of-my-crime-wasnt-based-on-what-i-did-but-what-i-could-have-done/" rel="nofollow">https://forklog.media/ex-convicted-hacker-ghostexodus-severi...</a><p>I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessive for most non-violent crimes. I'm American but I live in Asia so maybe I'm now an outsider. I'm not aware of any other country that punishes this harshly.<p>Serious questions: Does any other country <i>routinely</i> punish so severely? To what end? At what financial and psychic cost to society? If we're unique (exceptional?) why do we do this to ourselves?