I’d love to see Judge Sullivan impose this type of sentence:
I sentence you to 120 months of community service, to be served in the following manner:
a) you will report to the National Zoo each Saturday morning at 8:00 am and will work until 5:00 pm
b) you will spend the day cleaning elephant stalls. If on any Saturday you should finish before 5:00 pm, you will then proceed to clean the stalls of the next largest animals in the Zoo
c) you will report wearing your prison jumpsuit, which will have your name and prisoner ID # prominently displayed on the back, in letters at least 6” high
d) you will be excused from this service only on Saturdays before Christmas, New Year’s and other federal holidays
e) after 60 months, you may apply for commutation of the remainder of your sentence, upon submission of letters of recommendation to this court from your fellow groundskeepers only. These letters will need to attest to your
- positive attitude while cleaning out the stalls
- the thoroughness and exemplary diligence in cleaning the stalls, and
- the respect and humility you display to your fellow groundskeepers
These are the only letters of recommendation this court will consider.
Perhaps, sometime during the course of serving your sentence, you will come to fully appreciate the freedoms this country represents, the cost in blood and treasure that was expended in attaining it. Freedoms that you swore to uphold, and that you so cavalierly sold out while desecrating the office of the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States.
Please feel free to add any other non-incarceration alternative sentences that you would like to see ...