Slobodan, I was also going to comment on that terrible judge. 28 years seem much too lenient of a sentence.
There are other equally distressing reports of abuse of the private, for profit, prison system, where the prisons get paid a flat rate, so they try some despicable methods to cut costs, including denying even basic medical care resulting in needless deaths. Unfortunately, U.S. federal, state and local governments increasingly are turning over traditional government services to private, for profit, companies. This trend has resulted in corruption, bloated costs, and poor services in too many cases.