Prisoner having own television show?

[Adagio]

What do you think about this?

I don't have a link, since I have only found some places about it, where it's in danish (If someone has a link, please post it...)

I haven't read much about this case, but what I've heard is:

Kurt Thorsen (a company owner) made some tax-fraut (or something like that), and was put in jail... that was about 6+ months ago, if I remember right...

Now he's still in jail, but he has a job in show bussiness: He has his own TV show (Called "Thorsen"), which means he gets out of jail, once a week (maybe more)


I could undestand it, if his show was about telling others, to stop doing what he did... but from what it looks like: He's not sorry about what he did, and the show is some comedy show (I haven't watched it myself, but saw a commercial for the show, where some of the best danish comedians where in...)


I can't see what punnishment there is, in having his own TV show
What do you think of this?

[Lancer]

Prison is for punishment of crimes.

It seems strange that I should have to point that out...but it's the world we live in.

When you are 4, and you break daddys favorite humidor, you get a spanking. The spanking is rehabilitating, and the only thing that stands between your new humidor and destruction.

You don't reward the kid with his own TV show.

[Adagio]

Tell that to our court system...

[General Ludd]

Why can't he do the show inside his jail cell? I think that should be a requirement for all sit-coms, actually.

[Boris Godunov]

Non-violent criminals are often let out of jail during the day to go work. What's the problem if his job is now having a TV show?

[chequita guevara]

Actually, prison is for the reformation of prisoners and to seperate them from society (for our safety). There is also a common law practice that when a community might be harmed by the removal of a person to prison, that other means of sentence may be carried out.

[Dis]

reformation is just a load of crap.

we put people in prison to keep them away from the rest of society. very few people are actually "reformed" in prison.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Non-violent criminals are often let out of jail during the day to go work. What's the problem if his job is now having a TV show?

He got his own TV show, because there was much talking about him (Because of what he did), before the trial, so he only got his own TV show, because he did something criminal

I think it's like saying: "Here's a reward, for the crime you just did"... This might encourage more people to do, what he did...

[Dis]

didn't they do the same thing with Robert Downey jr.? He made movies not a tv show though.

[Adagio]

Never heard of him...

[Giant_Squid]

What they should do is have one of those laws like America does where if a criminal benefits from his crime somehow, some (all) of the money has to go to the victim.
If it's tax fraud, let him work off his back payments at interest.

[Spiffor]

Does a nybody know laws wrt prisoners and their former jobs ? Do all prisoners lose their day job whe being jailed ?

[Dis]

depends on if their employer wants to keep a convicted criminal employed . It's all up to the boss.