In which case, make people do something worthwhile with their time as punishment. Give something back to society for risking so much fricking pain to others.
Not a dig at magistrates at all, but at the law.
I agree and that's probably all you can hope for. But I don't get why only 150 hours? That's just peanuts. Do something really useful and pay back properly. She's probably more than capable of giving at least one day a week for one year back to society. That's 400 hours. Work in a shelter or a...