In two other recent posts, I’ve discussed issues in creative sentencing—particularly public and online humiliation. Now here’s a fun one that may be the most fitting punishment I’ve seen yet.
A landlord in Richmond, Va., was recently found guilty of over 180 property-maintenance violations on over 150 properties that his company, Bayou Properties, owns in the Richmond Area. In addition to a $177,000 fine, and 30 days in jail, the landlord has been sentenced to live in one of his rental properties for 40 days under house arrest.
His 40-day, house-arrest sentence will be carried out in a building described as “unsecured and [has] a shed littered with needles, other drug paraphernalia and feces, according to a city inspector.”
Bravo, judge. Bravo.
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