Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky should be commended for showing mercy in sentencing former student-athlete Brock Turner to six months in jail and probation after a jury convicted Turner of three felony sexual assault charges in the January 2015 attack of a woman at Stanford. Here are eight reasons I’m defending this sentence.
• 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. They’re not.
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