Sadly, complete elimination of these harmful and ineffective sentences is not on the table, but since the proposed law would be retroactive, it would at least help bring many people who have been incarcerated for far too long home.
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Our descendants will also undoubtedly find it astonishing that cigarettes were freely available, while possessing far less harmful and addictive substances could end in prison sentences.
Margaret Herewasi-Te Huna wasentenceded for one count of "posting a harmful digital communication" in a Wellington, New Zealand district court this week, according to the New Zealand Herald.
"I can use bug spray," I started, and before I finished the sentence, I realized that bug spray, too, might be harmful to an unborn child.
Not only did this imply that lesbian sex is somehow lesser than heterosexual sex, the harsh sentencing suggested lesbian sex – via a dildo – is somehow more harmful than other non-consenting acts committed against children.
Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University and an expert on sentencing, describes the rationale for these laws: "We punish the kind of possession many concede is not inherently harmful but which contributes to behavior which produces much harm".
With this sentence, she calls into question Burke's gendered definitions; convinced that they are harmful, she argues later in the Rights of Men: As Wollstonecraft scholar Claudia Johnson has written, "As feminist critique, these passages have never really been surpassed".
That term is the maximum established for his crime under nonbinding sentencing guidelines, and prosecutors said it was warranted because Mr. Rajaratnam's "criminal conduct was brazen, arrogant, harmful and pervasive".
