By Marie…. Marie is the author of the blog Tales from the Handbasket and a strong voice for policies that heal families and work toward prevention rather than perpetual punishment. A friend asked me to watch this week’s episode of Law and Order SVU, a show I stopped watching years ago because its enjoyment of perversion–what awful crimes can…
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North Carolina sex police: Charging teen as adult for being a minor
By Robby Soave . . . A North Carolina 17-year-old caught in a sexting scandal faces charges of sexually exploiting a minor that could land him in jail for up to 10 years, since the law considers him an adult. But one of the minors he supposedly exploited is himself—which raises an obvious question: how can a teen be old…
Read MoreWHEN FANTASIES ARE ENOUGH TO CONVICT A GUY or Notice: No children were harmed in the making of this cartoon
~~by Lenore Skenazy…. Vladimir Nabokov might have been behind bars if Tony Briggs had been at the bench back in the day. Briggs is the judge in Britain who just found Robul Hoque, a 39-year-old animation fan, guilty of downloading “prohibited images” of cartoon girls, That’s right. Hoque is guilty of possessing distasteful art. Art that depicts sexy, young, FICTIONAL characters.…
Read MoreWas Grisham right? Child porn laws and mass incarceration
By Andrew Extein . . . Popular author John Grisham made headlines this week for speaking out against harsh sentences for child pornography, citing the recent prosecution of a friend for downloading child porn. His friend was sentenced to three years in prison for downloading pornography that claimed to depict 16-year-old females. Predictably there was an immediate backlash, with people accusing…
Read MoreAn urgent notice
According to its Rules of Practice and Procedure, the United States Sentencing Commission has once again issued the federally required notice requesting immediate public comment on its proposed sentencing policy issues for the amendment cycle ending May 1, 2015. Therefore, it is time again to ask you to send a letter to the United States Sentencing Commission to ask them…
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