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Ringleader of global monkey torture network jailed (www.bbc.com)

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[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

The US is an outlier, most countries cannot do this. Because otherwise you could be jailed for years if you shoplift ten times or something.

The upper limit is usually only used for sentencing if it's a repeat offender or if occured multiple times.

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026

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