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A telling headline for modern sentencing times

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from California, carrying the headline "Sex offender faces up to millenium in prison," tellingly reveals so much about modern American attitudes toward incarceration. Here are snippets:A convicted sex offender could be sentenced to more than a millenium in prison for molesting two girls, a prosecutor said Thursday. Horace Mann Williams, 44, is facing a penalty of up to 1,330 years in prison when he is sentenced Friday at the Murrieta Courthouse, said Deputy District Attorney Burke Strunsky. Williams previously spent six years in prison for sexual molestation in the early 1990s.... Outside court, jurors said they convicted Williams because he showed a pattern of behavior typical for child molesters. ?After a first offense and after a parole violation, he couldn't stay away from girls,? one juror said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 10, 2008 (boomark / email).