I know it is off subject but when I was in the Dutch West Indies rumor had it that 7 years was the longest sentence you could get no matter what and that major drug smugglers got only 2 or 3 years tops - that and foreigners supposedly only served 33% of their sentences before being deported - maybe that accounts for the higher crime levels on the Dutch side of St Maarten - the French dont mess around when it comes to prison time or treatment of prisoners