Jesus, where do I start with this bill. This is literally excusing criminals from their sentences because they broke the law to avoid the law.
1. No additional penalty may be imposed for successful or attempted escape from an Atlasian federal or military prison, provided no human being is intentionally physically harmed during the attempt, with the following exceptions:
First of all, I'm pretty firm in the belief that if a criminal is being insubordinate towards the law and law enforcement, then they should absolutely be additionally punished, ESPECIALLY if they're successful. Secondly, I have a big problem with the bill including military prisons. If we allow national security threats to walk away from our prisons somehow unpunished, what kind of example does that set to criminals? That we're pushovers and we allow dangerous people to leave any chance they get. There are many other solutions as opposed to this.
This bill will make it so that people are not punished for attempting to escape prison. They are already serving time for a crime they committed and once they are caught they will continue serving that time.
Yes, they are already serving time, maybe instead of wasting time, money, and resources trying to find them and recapture them, we can keep them there for the amount of time they should be serving. And hell, what if they're not recaptured? There is nothing a bill would do that would guarantee a potentially harmful criminal from being recaptured.
This bill is a disaster.
