A convicted serial bank robber begged a federal judge to keep him locked up for the maximum term after striking three establishments in Florida — just two weeks after he was released from prison for another bank robbery.
Terry Meach, 42, was sentenced last Thursday to 20 years in federal prison — the maximum for bank robbery — after pressing that extensive time behind bars would not only curb his urges and normalize his life but improve the public’s safety.
“Please, could you consider giving me the max or the most time so that I can get back to my normal life in a controlled environment? Prison keeps me from my own self-destruction and keeps the outside community safer,” the repeat offender wrote in a letter to US District Court Judge Rodney Smith in September, according to the Miami Herald .