Women in Prison: Mother Gets 10 Years in Prison for $31 of Marijuana

25-year-old mother of four receives 10-year sentence in prison for selling $31 of marijuana to an informant. Just another addition to the failed drug policies in the state of Oklahoma.

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[normlintulsa]

@Mikaika25 - This type of events occurs far too often, and though the punishment far outweighs the crime and should be deemed cruel by anyone, the problem only gets worse. We're talking about marijuana here... alcohol is sold legally and kills over 80,000 people a year... tobacco kills over 400,000... but instead of arresting them, we learned from prohibition, it causes far more problems. You cannot overdose on marijuana. All we're doing is making potentially violent criminals out of people.

[AStaticCharacter]

Has this judge heard of the term 'cruel and unusual punishment'?

[exxx247]

Guys, GOD took care of this monstrous bitch! Wow I am becoming religious.

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[exxx247]

Hey who's gonna give the useless judge a sentence as a consequence for this life she's chosen?

[ThePinkDress1986]

She got 10 years for selling drugs in front of her babies? Seriously? Wow. Tough laws.

[Suarez738]

Susie Pritchett can go die a slow painful death

[ssssanchezz]

Susie Pritchett has sociopath written all over her face. Seems as though she's gleeful at the prospect of sending someone to jail for 12 years. That woman should not be a judge.

[furyofbongos]

One of the main purposes of drug laws is to keep the Criminal Justice Industrial Complex funded.

[furyofbongos]

So who was harmed by this sale of leaves? Answer: no-one. The "crime" was disobeying an arbitrary and nonsensical government command (law). 5 lives have been destroyed by the government.

[newperve]

Don't worry I'm sure that the 4 kids growing up without a mother will still be productive and healthy and won't be less productive and cost the economy effectively tens of thousands of dollars, millions if they turn out criminal. It's all worth the heartbreak because there is absolutely no economic problems with these creul policies. It's only costing this generation, honestly.

[FreedomZealot]

Shortly before this, if memory serves, the Oklahoma legislature enacted a measure banning the use of "Sharia Law" by judges. That way Oklahoma residents can be confident that the Islamic-inspired draconian drug laws of countries like Saudi Arabia won't influence decisions in that state; instead, the authoritarian pricks (and prick-ettes) running the state's "justice" system will rely exclusively on home-grown varieties of religious extremism to justify sentences of this kind.