[mcv]

There are absolutely crimes and criminals that should be punished more severely, but there's also a place for compassion in the justice system. Many men did make a one-time mistake (or sometimes not even that) and get harshly punished for it. At the same time, there are also men who get a slap on the wrist for crimes that are usually punished more severely. Usually men who are rich, white and/or well connected.

There's way to much bias based on irrelevant circumstances in the US justice system. Black men in particular need a bit more mercy, rich white people need more accountability, women need to be taken more seriously in both directions.

First an foremost, though, the US prison-industrial complex needs to end. Profiting from imprisonment creates perverse incentives. The goal of the prison system needs to be rehabilitation, not corporate profit at the expensive of the people.

[Geeek]

White women, rich or not, tend to most often get a slap on the wrist.