After serious thinking Bod wrote :
Hmm, he was sentenced under a Class X felony.I didn't see a Class X
offence in the list of Class X offences. Habitual offender wasn't on the
list.

Idiot. He was sentenced under the IL habitual offender law, which
applies
Class X *sentencing* to habitual offenders, who have committed multiple
felonies, are career criminals. There is no reqt that he actually
commit a class X felony. Got it now? Probably not.

I've got it, but it still seems way OTT to me. No wonder your jails
are so full. Spend more money on rehabilitation and you'll get a
percentage of prisoners who will stop re-offending.

Sure, that works. ROFL


Seems like a sledgehammer to crack a nut to me.

You're the nut. Nothing we do here is right. If this career criminal
was allowed to go on to his 61st burglary and he wound up surprising
some homeowner, with one or the other winding up dead, why then you'd
be here bitching about that. Enough is enough. Why should 60 families
be traumatized? How'd you like it if he was in your house? The guy
can be out in just 11 years if he wises up and behaves himself.
Perfectly OK with me. He knew the rules, he gambled again, he lost.

Why Norway's prison system is so successful - Business Insider
uk.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-so-successful-2014-12
11 Dec 2014 - That makes Norway's incarceration rate just 75 per 100,000
people, ... "Americans want their prisoners punished first and rehabilitated
second.

IMO the idea of punishment as a deterrent and that of rehabilitation as
a re-education misses the mark. First and foremost, predators on a
society should be separated from that society. These other aspects are
secondary considerations.