i guess you nolonger get 60 days in jail for rape in VT

[Hell's Bells]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/26/D8FCF1MG1.html

A judge who was widely vilified after he sentencing a man to 60 days in jail for sexually abusing a child said Thursday he would increase that sentence to at least three years.

The judge said he felt he could impose the longer sentence now because the state had agreed to provide treatment to the man while he is behind bars. Originally, the state had said such treatment would not come until time was served.

[SonomaCat]

Logically, it makes sense. The judge sounds like he is more concerned with trying to get this guy treatment so he won't do this sort of thing again as opposed to locking him up for the sake of locking him up. It sounds like rational minds overcame whatever difference were behind the scenes, and they agreed to get the guy treatment while he was in jail as opposed to making him sit in jail getting zero treatment and only receiving treatment when he got out.

I hope this allows them to come to a point at the end of the process where a guy is released from jail who won't be doing this sort of thing again, as opposed to just throwing him in jail for the sake of having him in jail for punishment purposes exclusively.

And if they determine that he's still a significant threat ... I would hope there's a mechanism in place to either keep him in jail or monitor him very, very closely.