I get that what she did was upsetting and that you feel she deserves more punishment, but can I say I dislike this knee jerk thinking? Automatically thinking everything deserves time in prison, and the tough on crime mentality is how we ended up being the country with the highest per capita prison population in the…

Schrödinger’s Poor: simultaneously working too many menial jobs to properly raise their terrible children while also lazily living off of welfare.

The thing that scares me the most is the part where she thinks she’s being positive.

As a Pittsburgher, this woman is completely infuriating. She had been posting holier-than-thou Facebook posts for a very long time prior to this incident, and I was happy that the station finally took action after this horribly racist and excruciating post.

but I know as a woman I am constitutionally of the same value as a foetus

In Ireland, if a woman becomes pregnant by rape and aborts the child she faces more prison time than her rapist.

Oh, I totally agree with you...

why use ‘blind eye’ when ‘accessory’ has such a nice ‘lock you in jail for a while’ ring to it?

Except no one is encouraging maximum sentences and ruthless prosecution across the board. People want judges to stop handing out lenient sentences to rapists because they don’t want to ruin their futures, because they consistently show more empathy and sympathy for those rapists than they do for their victims. Rapists…

46% percent of all inmates in state prisons are therefore in prison for non-violent crimes - 46% is a “tremendous number of people.”

This. Mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes is a phenomenon that has ruined countless lives and entire communities. Saying “gee, if we adequately punish people for rape, there will be more people in prison, and we have too many people in prison already, remember?” is such a false equivalence it makes my head…

This culture of mass incarceration has so shaped our minds that when a judge, like Judge Persky in this case, undertakes a holistic sentencing analysis that accounts for both the victim and the convicted, we still insist on arbitrary, lengthy terms of incarceration as the response to crime.

I don’t think we should focus on Persky (or Turner, for that matter) to the exclusion of everything else, but in the same way Persky’s sentence sent a strong message to rapists everywhere (“Don’t worry, white boys, even if you are caught in the act of raping an unconscious person by multiple witness, the justice…

But how do they not see Persky’s decision as an abject failure to make a thoughtful determination? That fool saw this well-to-do white kid with major athletic aspirations, and treated him the way we treat all rich white athletic offenders: as if they haven’t committed any crime at all. We don’t need robotic…

Kitteh loves his wine.

yeah, “you’re a fake because I wasn’t very curious or bright when I was 12 years old” is an interesting defense that seems to be proving his point

I’m with missypoo50.

Why is this, an ostensibly feminist blog, referring to sexual activity involving multiple adults and a minor who cannot legally consent a “sex scandal”?!

Yes, his disability affects his balance, not his decision making. The only point of this was to try and gain some sympathy.