Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins’ wrists rather than a stolen ring around his girlfriend’s finger. Hopkins is a felon, a thief and a cad.

Instead of a fiance’ and a wife, Hopkins gets a warden and a parole officer.

She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.

He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a drug habit. He did this because he wanted to be a big man in the neighborhood. Well, now he can be a big man in the state prison system.

It was a great sentence. He will die in prison.

His parole officer hasn't been born yet.