4 months in jail for stealing a Yankee Candle.

Hopefully a stay in a secure place with help them on a road to recovery.

It's rarely the single offence that a sentence is given on. Most likely a string of offences

He probably got a fiver for the candle...

The price of Yankee Candles is robbery.

You can’t give them away. Why would anyone steal one?

My friend and i were in a taxi going to McCarran Airport in Las Vegas and got talking to the driver who was a woman. She was upset because her son had just been sent to jail for 3 years. He stole a DVD. It did sound harsh but she admitted when he was 16 he stole a car, and when he was 17 he was caught with a bag of weed.

We were very supportive, but talking about it later, and agreed, in a state with mandatory minimums, if you had 2 strikes against you, how monumentally stupid would you have to be to steal a DVD, risk getting caught and go to jail for 3 years?

This guy, the one in the OP, has committed any number of crimes already and the judge thought "Clearly the last slap on the wrist wasn't enough. I hope you like porridge".

I say good. About time. I'm fed up of people wandering around with 64 convictions.

shoulda stole a red sox one

he had plenty of previous, so while it might seem a bit draconian, a suspended would have been zero deterrent, and a couple of weeks might have seen him back out in one. He’ll serve about 3 months, maybe slightly less.

the wellbeing of society and the victims should be the priority when sentencing, not the wellbeing of the criminal.

4 months inside ?

He will be out in 2, maybe even less with good behavior

Prisons are full these days.

They have draconian rules in the USA, but we're the opposite here.

I'd suggest that it is progressive. Up to three minor offences and the judge can use whatever discretion he/she wishes. The 4 - 6 sentence is applied but can be suspended in parts.

But after 6, imprisonment is obligatory with full sentence handed down and up to 50% reduced or suspended based on standard criteria (guilty plea etc). Then further incentives within the imprisonment for extra credit including drug teesting, education etc

Problem is we'd need a couple of thousand extra prison places.

Why a Yankee candle?

Why n0t some food, or some electrical goods. Mr Price has plenty of small but relatively expensive items, such as superglue, locks, drill bits, ma more hide-able things than a feckin Yankee candle.

He deserves the four months on stupidity alone.

That being said, it's my understanding that said individual is essentially a "ducks head in water" when it comes to prison, as in he's popping in and out all the time.

What scent Yankee candle?

I used to work in a shop and petty theft wasn’t reported to the gardai. The most we could do is try and bar them.

Now I agree that jail over a 20 euro item seems extreme but where is the red line? Can we have people continuously rob items and harass and intimidate minimum wage workers? It’s the latter part which annoyed me most. All across the country there are minimum wage staff being expected to act as security / social worker and be a target for aggression and abuse. These jobs are thankless enough without all that. There needs to be consequences.

Mandatory life sentences for any crime? Sorry, I need more than a trust me bro on that one.

Lighting Yankee candles in his local church and saying prayers :-)

highly unlikely he ll be rehabilitated upon release, as reoffence rates are extremely high after release, and our prisons are probably one of the worst places for a person to try work on complex psychological issues that leads to such situations, so on and on we go…..

…and im sure this approach works well in the states to!

drug addiction requires specialised care, in specialised environments resourced with specialised professionals, virtually none of which exists in our prisons, so….

…best of luck with keeping drugs out of our prisons!

He’ll definitely get rehabilitated this time.

Mr Price are obviously taking the Dunnes Stores approach to shoplifters. They’d prosecute you for stealing a fredo bar. It’s a deterrent to keep shoplifters out of their shops, increases the risk for the shoplifter and reduces Dunnes’ loses overall.

This is pathetic…

Regular people are starting to realise that nothing happens when you break the law. She's after walking away with €50,000. no custodial sentence.

Like where will this stop? I'd argue if you stole a bunch of supercars from a high end dealer, and joy rode them around town, you'd be unlucky if you didn't get a fully suspended custodial sentence…