Is he really that badly behaved in jail? It seems like he's being fairly compliant. The jail allows him to buy commissary items and borrow books, and he probably spends a lot of time sleeping and writing letters. He'd probably lose privileges if he weren't following the rules. I'm sure the jail staff have plenty of more dangerous criminals to deal with, and Chris has said in letters that he's made allies with the staff.
From what I can discern, he got in trouble initially for tarding out but, Chris being Chris, he responds well to immediate discipline and has more or less been a compliant inmate. As long as the threat of punishment is immediate he will continue to be well-behaved. He only does stupid shit when potential consequences have time to fade out of his immediate attention and his delusional model of reality takes over.
Remember, he doesn't trespass in some bad boy defiance. He trespasses in "let bygones be bygones" because he hasn't been punished recently, and it just makes sense to him that everyone will forgive him.
When he trespasses in protest, it's because he's fighting for a righteous cause and the people will rally around him against the bad people.
You have to literally beat reality into Chris, and keep that threat there constantly, otherwise he will construct his own reality that suits him.
Also I wonder when he's next seen outside of jail, will he still have the seaweed hair? I think inmates have made hair dye out of Kool-aid but I think unnatural colors are frowned upon.
His booking photo at CVRJ does not have seaweed hair. You can view it on the VINE website.
At least you have some siund legal knowledge. On the subreddit this one sperg still thinks Chris could get his charges dropped and go back home..... Don't laugh but we knew the average Redditor is room temperature.
Believe it or not, that's still a very remote possibility. There are ways it could happen. I don't think it's likely and I would be very surprised if it happened, but it's possible. If they work out Chris' exit situation, they could be satisfied that Chris has been punished enough and they don't need to bother with a conviction. There are also potential exit situations where he could go back to 14BC (but he would need a LOT of help with the paperwork to make that happen).
More likely though, they will find him supportive housing, and he will not go back to 14BC. Also more likely they will give him a misdemeanor incest conviction so that they can say they punished him for his crimes, while not setting him up to be a repeat offender due to onerous restrictions. I do not think they want to be dealing with Chris again for weird crimes.
In the Punished Chris scenario, he's more likely to be a repeat offender because of perverse incentives, eventually ending in the Fentanyl Saga.
Does Virginia have the death penalty?
Is there any way a judge faced with all of the difficulties surrounding Chris, could legally impose it rather than bother dealing with the longer term issues?
Virginia recently abolished the death penalty.
But even if they hadn't, and even if they reinstate it, SCOTUS has ruled that it can only be applied in situations where you willfully caused the death of another. It doesn't make sense to punish someone with death (the ultimate punishment) when they have not committed murder (the ultimate crime).
Historically, punishments far in excess of the impact of crimes have frequently resulted in rebellion.
