Thursday, October 16, 2014

Bestselling novelist John Grisham says child porn shouldn't always mean jail...

Far too many men are being jailed for viewing child pornography, bestselling novelist John Grisham has said.

The American legal thriller writer, 59, said a lot of "guys my age" were being locked up when they had done no more than "had too much to drink" and visited an illegal website.

In an interview with London's Telegraph, he attacked the US judicial system, saying that judges had "gone crazy" over the past 30 years, locking up far too many people, from white-collar criminals, such as businesswoman Martha Stewart, to black teenagers on minor drugs charges.

"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who have never harmed anybody, would never touch a child," Grisham said.

"But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn." Full story...

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