These Public Defenders Don’t Think Brock Turner Is Getting Off Easy. Here’s Why.

“The culture of mass incarceration has warped our psyches into thinking that lengthy jail or prison terms are always the answer to criminal behaviors like sexual assault,” Sajid Khan San Jose public defender. “They’re not.” The media are treating Turner’s jail time as the sum total of his sentence. But it’s not six months and he’s off scot free…other attorneys maintain that Turner’s punishment of jail time, probation, a felony conviction, and the lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender is “being mis-characterized as a slap on the wrist,”

sfgate.com By Lamar Anderson,

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