Someone has just left the following comment in response to our piece about a lesbian being spared a prison sentence for revenge porn:
Mike, something that this article left me wondering is what is the average sentence that the twelve men so far convicted of this crime have received. Without that information, it’s impossible to tell if this sentence was light or par for the crime.
Fair point. A few seconds of internet searching led to a story of a man convicted for revenge porn – here. He was given a prison sentence of five months.
This is, of course, merely one symptom of a broader problem with the criminal injustice system. William Collins explained in this piece that if men were sentenced as leniently as women by the courts, five out of six men in prisons in the UK wouldn’t be there. Gender equality would provide a rapid solution to the prison overcrowding crisis, as the male prisoner population would fall from about 80,000 to around 13,000. We recently raised this matter with Michael Gove, Justice Secretary, with predictable results – here.
