[StBernard] Violet man gets 80 years for killing 2 men outside bar

[Westley Annis]

Jer,

The good thing here is that manslaughter is considered a "crime of violence"
under R.S. 14:2 (http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=78337), this
means he will have to serve a minimum of 85% of his sentence, or 68 years
(R.S. 571.3.(1) -
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760095).

At lunch the other day, one of Lafourche Parish judges was speaking about a
case he was going to have to issue a sentence on in which the thug was even
worse than this one. The interesting thing I learned is that no one walks
out of Angola alive. No one gets sent to Angola unless there is an
expectation that you will not live out your prison sentence.

According to the Judge, who took a tour of Angola once, he said the Warden
has such control over the prisoners there, even the ones on Death Row, that
the Warden had made a comment that Angola is one of the few prisons in the
U.S. where a walk down Death Row doesn't require you to dress out is haz-mat
suits. The prisoners do not throw food or spit or anything of that nature.

Another interesting thing I learned, Louisiana was the fourth state in the
union to adopt an early release program, way back in 1842
(https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=52481).

Westley