This is the kind of story that leaves you hating the state and its insane system of mass lockup. Her crime was escaping a hellhole known as the Detroit House of Corrections in 1976, along with family members who assisted her. Of course, at 19, any average girl - who was not a product of the street - would not have survived the harsh, gang-infested environment of a women's prison. Her "crime" that landed her in a Detroit prison? She was caught with heroin and given a maximum sentence of 20 years. No violence, no destruction of property, and no aggression against any others.
LeFevre said she agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and violation of drug laws in hopes of winning leniency, but received the maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years.
Instead, some puppet enforcers for the state tossed a 19-year-old kid behind bars for 20 years. Upon her escape from hell, she had moved to California, changed her name, married, raised children, and was committing the other crime of leading a life of financial security with a husband who made a fine living. The hairspray crew on FOX this morning kept sniping that she was "driving a Lexus" and "living in a $2M home." How dare she! One commentator even commented that she was, "doing nothing.....she was just a housewife, walking around and doing nothing...." ???
But as a Department of Corrections spokesman says, "She has a prison sentence to fulfill," Marlan said. "We can't, even if we wanted to, negate that prison sentence. What kind of message would that send to 50,000 other prisoners in Michigan? If you escape and live clean, you can have your sentence dropped if you're caught?"
Thus it's not about being peaceful and not committing crimes, for that's not what the state actually desires in the end, though its propaganda will tell us otherwise. It's all about falling into line with the rest of the herd and setting a good example for acquiescence to the state and its collective prescriptions for determining how you will live your life.
It always makes me wonder what kind of people - unfortunately, the majority of people - can hear this stuff and believe that a lifetime lockup from the government is some kind of logical solution?
