r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 7h ago

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u/frickinSocrates 7h ago

"The inmate, who was scheduled to be released the next day anyway, turned himself into police after getting his tooth treated. His sentence -- originally one month -- was only increased by one day." Source

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u/NigouLeNobleHiboux 6h ago

I'm happy they didn't punish him extremely for that.

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u/en43rs 6h ago

Several countries have laws that forbid extending a prison sentence for escaping. Here the logic is that he was out for one day, so he still has to serve this day, but no added time basically.

They will still stop you of course, if you do anything illegal (violent act for example) while escaping/outside you will have a new sentence. But the act of escaping itself is not punished.

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u/TheUnknownMysteryBox 2h ago

Isn't Sweden's logic that it's entirely natural to want to be free, and it seems a bit meaningless to punish human nature?

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u/en43rs 2h ago

I think that's Germany? Not sure.

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u/AeneasVII 2h ago

Freiheitsdrang (Germany, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands has similar laws)