Compassion for Madoff?

If he earned good time days- then cool. If they allow it then he can do it.

If he didn’t, well, sucks for him. He committed a federal offense and needs to serve it. I don’t know if federal prisons do good time like state ones can.

I tend to be sympathetic to stories like this, but then I think about the people who lost their life savings to his greed, and I am no longer sympathetic.

“Sorry I got caught and now I’m sick”, doesn’t cut it. Let him have is last breath going out the gate.

^^ Exactly. I think Bill Cosby may be really sick, should he be let out just for that? You have to serve your full sentence most of the time.

He can’t claim to show compassion, considering how he fleeced people of their entire financial holdings, and followed that buy trying to place funds in such a way restitution could not be made.
I wonder how he could hope for that which he could not feel himself.
My opinion is let him out three days after he quits breathing.

I hate to say it, but they all seem to deteriorate quickly behind bars. Too quickly. Keep him.

Maybe if he had been locked up the last 50 years I would have compassion. As it is now, I’m not feeling too much. He is a horrible thief. In his final days maybe let him go to a hospital to let his children visit or whatever. For the children, if they want to be able to be with him.

Let them visit in North Carolina, they got lots a money !

None. Nada. Zilch.

I don’t believe I know enough to cast an opinion.

Hey guys… Remember Buster?

https://www.fluther.com/users/buster/

He got nabbed for having a few grams of weed in Tennessee. He did 18 months in jail. And then when he got out probation so was restrictive he couldn’t leave the county he was in. And getting a job was difficult and he was living in a shithole and he really wanted out of Tennessee but he couldn’t leave. So he fucking killed himself. Over a little bit of weed.

I will leave it up to you to math together the amount of sympathy I have for Madoff.

Justice for the rich, even the criminally rich is NEVER equivalent to that doled out to the rest of us.

It is hard to feel compassion for Madoff. He was wealthy before creating his pyramid scheme. The people who were cheated were his closest friends. I would guess that his imprisonment is something like the private room that Martha Stewart got for insider trading,

No way. He didn’t have compassion for the poor fools he screwed.

In these situations, the compassion is often directed at family members, and other loved ones, who are innocent of any wrong-doing. Such people might be comforted by the opportunity to spend time with someone terminally-ill. I don’t know enough about Madoff’s circumstances to have an opinion; he’s mentioned several, young grandchildren.

I also feel that if other non-violent offenders are given the same consideration, and there are other examples of non-violent offenders getting to go home when they’re terminally ill, then maybe. Otherwise, why would his treatment be any different than anybody else’s?

Here is the story as appears in the Washington Post. Read past the several ads. It tells in some detail of his crimes, and how people were affected.

I say treat him like he ain’t got no stinkin’ money. I had a friend who was sent to a “real” prison in NC. When he became terminal, his family drove up to see him and the prison refused to let any of them in, including him mom. Told them he wasn’t allowed any visitors

I had the impression from the article his family isn’t even interested. He is apparently alone in making his request. It sounds like he is using his family as a tear jerk.
It doesn’t seem to me he even understands yet what his punishment is about, or the depth of pain he caused worldwide.

I think he had one son commit suicide, the other wants nothing to do with him, and the wife is still feeling pretty pissy over the mess he created

If he’s that sick, and no family wants him around, why does he want to go home, and where would that be? Did they let him keep his house, or would he go to a nursing home?

He’s just a greedy greedy man. He wants out, and he’s trying to play the death card because that’s the only one he’s holding.