John Grisham: sentences too harsh for viewing child abuse images

Best-selling crime author blasts US justice system, saying jails are full of 60-year-old white men who never harmed anybody

Top-selling author John Grisham says people who look at child abuse images probably had too much to drink and should be given lighter prison sentences.

The novelist, 59, criticised the length of imprisonment imposed on offenders who download images of children being sexually abused. He also revealed that one of his friends had been caught in a sting.

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