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PA - Misusing Precious Resources for Nonexistent Crimes

View the article here This reminds me of the movie "Running Man," where a man made a game show, using criminals, to exploit them for monetary gain, viewers and ratings! 02/22/2009 By Ronald Orf "Suppose I was an idiot. And suppose I was a member of Congress. But-I repeat myself.? - Mark Twain _____, a school principal from Harlan,Iowa was sentenced to a mandatory ten-year prison term on Wednesday, February 18th. His crime was attempting to entice a fifteen-year-old Waterloo, Iowa girl to meet him for sex. In sentencing him the judge, Robert Pratt, used the words ?dehumanizing and demonizing?. He was not referring to Stroschein, but to his disgust with the U.S. Congress and mandatory sentencing laws. ?I would give a much different sentence were I allowed to do so? said Pratt...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).