Would You Rather Go to Church or Prison?
At Slate, Ryan McCartney writes on a controversial sentencing made by an Oklahoma judge. After a teenage drunk driver killed a passenger in an accident, he pled guilty to first degree manslaughter. But, as McCartney writes, the judge ordered that the youth “won’t be serving any time in jail, provided, that is, he goes to church every Sunday for the next 10 years,” as a condition of his deferred sentence and probation.