Re: Still might be a tad excessive
"[...] two years as the cellmate of Big Roger should be more than enough to put most 'pirates' off a life of crime."
A friend is a counsellor for ex-prisoners. She has found several times that otherwise respectable people who succumbed to a temptation became real criminals after their release from prison.
Apparently the first week was the worst - and they would have gone straight if they had been released after that limited experience. Once they adjusted to prison life they learned how to be a criminal - and they felt they had nothing to lose in their future relationship with society..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
