Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 at 2:18 pm  |  105 responses

Top Recruit Collapses After Receiving Three-Year Prison Sentence (VIDEO)

An emotional video has made rounds today involving a top ranked player from Ohio. Tony Farmer, a 6-7 power forward of Garfield Heights who had offers from the likes of Illinois, DePaul, Penn State and Xavier, collapses to the floor after hearing the judge sentence him to three-years in prison–possibly ending his collegiate basketball career hopes. From Yahoo! Sports: “Instead of sifting through scholarship offers, selecting a school and launching his college basketball career as he originally planned, an Ohio high school standout will have to put his dreams on hold. Tony Farmer, an 18-year-old senior at Garfield Heights High School, received a three-year prison sentence on Tuesday as a result of pleading guilty to kidnapping, felonious assault and other crimes. The 6-foot-7 forward had been hoping to receive probation after teachers, coaches and family members testified on his behalf. When he learned he’d be going to prison as the judge read his sentence, he crumpled into the arms of a sheriff’s deputy and collapsed to the ground in anguish. In an odd twist, among those in the gallery sobbing in reaction to the judge’s decision was the victim herself, Farmer’s ex-girlfriend Andrea Lane. Even though the two remain separated since Farmer attacked Lane last April after she didn’t want to reconcile their relationship, Lane had previously asked Judge Pamela Barker not to put Farmer in prison.”

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  • Jerome

    @Allenp: that whole ‘my god.is bette than your god, which makes me better than you’ thing is tired.

  • http://www.nba.com/knicks danpowers

    @charliewinning: i agree on what you said. to me rehabilitation should just be reformed. send him to a programme where he suffers more than while being locked up in a prison, let him get into smth like a bootcamp where he cant quit voluntarily, let him get drilled and educated over and over again until they break him there and educate a new person in terms of being able to feel empathy and take responsibility for what he does. many programmes that work pretty well allready exist. at the end a psychological expertise should be done on this kind of offenders before they are being released back into society. if they fail to rehab themselves, then lock em away. if its a so so call, let them get back with an electronic tag like some countries do with pedofiles. or if the programme worked, let them get back to become a valuable part of society. sure, most woman beaterst or maybe all repeat their behaviour, but i think just simply because nobody is out there to set them straight.idk but i guess a woman beater who goes to prison will return out of prison as a woman beater. this i why i say, there should be a different system to deal with human scum like wife beaters or rapist to at least try to change this part of their behaviour.

  • http://wired.com charliewinning

    I dig what you’re saying. The only point I will add is that there really isn’t much scientific evidence that suggests therapy or other forms non-prison rehabilitation has been proven successful in the the cases of violent or sex offenders. The recidivism rates for these individuals are higher than pretty much any other kind of criminal. Not saying that prison helps them in any way shape or form, but the rest of us get the comfort of knowing they aren’t on the loose for the duration of their sentences. Not everyone can be rehabilitated, but I totally agree with everything you’re saying on rehabilitation reform. We need a major overhaul.

  • http://slamonline.com Mars

    Not a joking matter to Tony’s life. They should show this to all the young black kids coming up, trying to make it out. The system is not a joke. And being good at sports will not save you. Those are some serious charges for an 18 yr old. God Bless. Pray for better tomorrows.

  • http://slamonline.com Mars

    @charliewinning, yes, prison is a business bruh. They dont send you there to fix the problem (rehabilitate). They send you there in hopes you will never stop returning. Prison is not a cure. It’s a disease for those who suffer from poverty. Lord knows the rich only own prisons. Pray.

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