r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Massive3213 • 4d ago

Steven Jay Russell, former executive employee, after being fired he became a forger and fraudster in the 90s, known for escaping from prison 4 times, one of them being a maximum security prison, he was currently sentenced to 144 years in prison, isolation and an hour a day to shower and exercise

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u/StaticGuarded 4d ago

Life imprisonment is insanely excessive for a nonviolent crime.

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u/Wise-Push-7133 4d ago

He spent 3 years in prison on the original crime and got paroled....then....repeated the crimes and then tried to escape and did.....multiple times.

If the dude just did his time.....for the actual crimes he committed he would have been out a long time ago

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u/StaticGuarded 4d ago

Yeah, I guess in this case it was more “Look, we all believe in rehabilitation but you clearly haven’t learned your lesson so it would be foolish of us to keep letting you go so you can continue victimizing others.”

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u/Wise-Push-7133 4d ago

He could have been out in literally 3 years....this is no one's fault but his own

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u/oooo0O0oooo 4d ago

…and the first three was his choice too. Bad choices all the way around with a terrible drive to follow through on the choice.