Judges: Is Incarceration Punishment or Rehab?

Published: March 5, 2010, 5 a.m.

McCracken Circuit Judge Craig Clymer sentenced 20-year-old Taylor Thompson last month to two and a half years in prison. Despite dozens of letters from the community and even the support of Barnett's parents requesting Thompson receive probation over prison time. Chris Taylor has more on differing and maybe controversial views on the way judges sometimes hand down sentences.