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Ohio getting tough on no-snack-sharing rules

By Douglas A. Berman

I can sleep a little sounder after reading this local article about how tough my state is on its miscreants:He slept through a fire drill, had loose tobacco in his possession and didn't show up for kitchen duty.  Then Timothy E. Caudill shared a Little Debbie snack cake with another inmate at a correctional facility in southeastern Ohio.  That was the last straw. The 21-year-old was kicked out of the residential community corrections program that was a requirement of his probation.  And he could go to prison.  That is absurd, said Caudill's attorney, Claire "Buzz" Ball. "Everybody talks about prison overcrowding.  My God, you have to send some guy to prison for sharing a snack?" Ball said. Vinton County Prosecutor Timothy P...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).