“I was just charged with 18 different counts, that was dropped to 10, that was dropped to one. When I shouldn’t be out right now. I disrupted somebody’s life. I traumatized somebody because of how I felt in a situation,” Trent said. “Personally, yes, I want to be out but, principally, no I shouldn’t be out because I could have done a lot more damage than I did. I was expecting to get time; people who were in that situation, they should expect to get time.” [More]
That innate sense of right and wrong makes him salvageable with the right kind of custodial care that includes reflection, penitence, and restitution. That they're not providing it pretty much means they're washing their hands of him and leaving his community to deal with him -- and vice versa.
Sound a bit like what has happened to more than one mass shooter before they went off the rails.
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