Going back to my grandniece's 10-year sentence for drunk driving in which her boyfriend was killed- my local paper today has an Anchorage, Alaska, story about a man who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and was released after serving a little over two years of an 8-year sentence.

From the paper: "Osbey was watching his girlfriend’s children in August 2007 when paramedics were called and found a 21-month-old boy was not breathing.

"Tarayvien Isias Prescott sustained multiple skull fractures Osbey said were suffered in a fall.

"Tarayvien’s 4-year-old brother gave police conflicting stories about how the younger boy was injured. In one, he said the toddler fell off a couch. At another point, the boy said Osbey slammed his brother’s head into the carpet.

Ariel, my sister's granddaughter, (whom I have never met) on the other hand, had no previous record, was 21 years old, had been an A+ student and was employed. On the third hand, she is half Black.