I don't think they should have put him in prison. I think they should have made him a govt contractor, at the rate of 25 cents and hour, and made him spend the rest of his life figuring out ways to get the money back to the people he swindled, plus interest.

What's my beef? Our criminal legal system punishes bad people for the bad they did to good people, but it does not hold the bad person resposnsible for fixing what they did to the good people.

Example, its a whole lot easier to shoot someone and go to jail for 20 years, then it would be to have to work 20 hours a day to pay that man for his suffering, pay all that mans medical bills, pay all the bills that man would have paid had he still been alive to work and earn income, and to pay to put that man's kids thru school.

Okay, put Madeoff in a cell, give him a computer, and tell him he now earns money to pay back the folks he ripped off, or he doesn't eat!