Kail Lowry

I recently listened to a book about a woman who went to prison for, it's fiction.

I believe it's fiction.

It's not based on a true story or anything.

And the main character went to prison for a car accident where she killed somebody.

And in the book, she talks about how hard it was.

I mean, one, it just took a toll on her mentally.

She didn't feel worthy of anything moving forward after that in her life.

And the book sort of follows her journey when she gets out of prison and sort of all of the things that she

um, faces and her, her inside thoughts about, you know, am I even worthy enough?

And, you know, things like that.

And so I think sometimes that is, that is the punishment because no amount of jail time can cause someone to have that sort of guilty conscience or, um, shame for their crime.

And it doesn't matter if they're in prison for a year, two years, five years, they're going to live with that regardless for the rest of their lives.

And that is enough for them to be torn up, not the jail time.

Like the jail time essentially at that point is, um,

Kind of a moot point.

And I'm not saying all cases are that way, but just based on the books that I've read or shows that I've seen, I'm like, okay, maybe that wasn't the best option is jail time.

And it's not regret.

And it's attached to everything you do at that point is why don't deserve this because I'm a bad person or I don't deserve this because I did this.

That goes beyond, you know, I wish I didn't do that.

It goes so much further than that, in my opinion.