Did I hear this correctly???  Joran Van Der Sloot is looking at 15 to 35 years in a Peruvian prison?  35 Years maximum. . . for first degree murder?  Maybe before we criticize the Peruvian justice system for its inhumane treatment of criminals, we need to start looking in our own backyard.  Here in the U.S. we routinely send people to prison to serve much longer sentences for far less serious crimes.  We actually had to have the Supreme Court rule, just recently, that children who commit non-murder offenses cannot be sentenced to Life in prison without the possibility of parole.  Isn't that just common sense?  We send "drug traffickers" (often just users) to prison for up to 30 years here in Florida.  Non-violent federal defendants routinely receive sentences which result in a de facto life sentence.  Punishment is important, agreed.  But when did we lose sight of the other goals of our criminal justice system.  When did we decide that individuals convicted of crimes are not entitled to prove that they have been rehabilitated, and eventually released back into society?  When did we determine that an entire class of our society is worth nothing.  When did our "correctional" institutions turn into warehouses where criminals of all kinds, many non-violent, go to die?  Maybe instead of condemning the criminal justice systems of countries abroad, we should look inward and decide what our goals really are.