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/2BrothersInaVan 4d ago

So, three years for what he did, and the rest because he tried to run?

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u/Wise-Push-7133 4d ago

He ran.....got a little more time. So, a normal person would learn and serve the time he did not.

Then he ran again and got a little more time and again didn't learn.

Then he ran again and got more time....then he ran a 4th time.

Things compound when you don't learn from your mistakes.

Sure, if he ran once and got out in 5 years, no one would bat an eye

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u/2BrothersInaVan 4d ago

:)

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u/WorkFriendly00 4d ago

Thought that was going to be A Flock of Seagulls song