[ConfuciusSay]

Sure, he's responsible.

But he deserves a month in jail, at most.

[zeveb]

Well, he could very well have cost his former employer tens of thousands of dollars—it would be appropriate for any sentence to be at least roughly the amount of time it would have taken him to earn that sum.

[blackguardx]

Does that mean that your prison time should be inversely proportional to your economic status?

[detaro]

Financial damages, have him actually pay for (possibly a set percentage of) them instead of spending money to keep someone away from work to inflict the same damage on him.

[ConfuciusSay]

Unless you're a banker, in which case you don't spend any time in jail, and you're given trillions in bailouts funded by the taxpayer.