High-Profile Prison Inmates: Do They Deserve to be Treated like Human Beings?
In this episode, Big Steve discusses the differing views in society regarding high-profile inmates and their humanity (or lack thereof). If someone committed a horrific crime, are they still deserving of being treated with kindness and dignity? Or, as many think, are they simply "monsters" that should be discarded and forgotten about forever? Big Steve shares some reasons why starting a pen pal correspondence with high-profile inmates is good for some, and bad for others. He then looks deeper into two high-profile members of PenPals.Buzz. One received a 16-year sentence for selling an ounce of marijuana. The other is better known as the "Yuma Killer," and he was sentenced to 50 years. Learn more about their backgrounds, their life stories, their crimes, and decide for yourself if either of them would make a good pen pal for you.
We discuss PenPals.Buzz member Jason Miears, better known as The Yuma Killer. In High School, he was voted by students and staff as Most Likely to Succeed. Now, he's serving over 50 years in an Arizona prison. The question still remains, is a man like Jason Miears worthy of love, friendship, and kindness? Or should he be forgotten? There's clearly an argument both ways. We just hope that hearing this podcast and reading his pen pal profile will cause you to think about him in a different light. Perhaps mental illness is something that should be considered more seriously at sentencing hearings? Or perhaps not. We'll let you be the judge.
Here is a full story about Jason Miears, the Yuma Killer: Mentally ill 'Yuma' killer sentenced to 50 years