The last thing we need is more Paris. In fact, people like her, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are the reason I've stopped watching TV.
And I really don't see how you think jail time<humiliation. This is not about humiliation. This is about someone understanding that if they do something wrong, we can remove them from the general population of society and get them to understand that this kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable. If the courts deem that you can't drive, then don't drive. If they say that the legal BAC is .08, then don't drive with a BAC above that.
It's quite simple.
And you do understand that Electronic Monitering is not suppose to be instead of jail, but usually either in addition to or for those who have committed crimes that normally don't pose a threat to society as a whole. That's why Martha Stewart got EM- yeah, she knew about some inside info, but that won't hurt a kid on his way to school. Insider trading doesn't cause deaths; drunk driving does, and having a suspended liscense signifies that the state no longer has confidence in your ability to handle a car- you know, that 2 ton mass of steel hurtling along the highway at 65 mph.
You don't see that this isn't really about Paris. This is about protecting everyone else FROM Paris, so you keep her away from people so she can learn that she has to modify her behavior. This isn't about keeping Paris away because they're overreacting and want to make an example of her- they want to make sure that the 25 year old nurse driving home at 3 AM isn't mowed down by Paris in whatever really fast car she has this week because she's driving a car that can go 200mph and is drunk.
Unfortunately, we have so many jails because we have too many stupid people. If they stopped doing stupid things, we wouldn't have this problem. This was also the reason for social stigma years ago, but that has since been pretty much eradicated from our society and as such, we end up with blights such as Paris, who need to be taught lessons the hard way.
