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The Guardian
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The Guardian, Thursday 16 October 2014
The author John Grisham apologised on Thursday for comments he made to the Daily Telegraph that not all men who look at child abuse images should be sent to prison and that sentences for such crimes were too harsh.
Grisham, who is about to publish his new legal thriller, made the comments to the British newspaper in the context of a wide-ranging attack on the US judicial system and its high prison rates.
Parts of the interview were available on video on the Telegraph’s website on Thursday, and will be published in full on Saturday, the paper said.
Grisham also issued an apology on his own website:
“Anyone who harms a child for profit or pleasure, or who in any way participates in child pornography – online or otherwise – should be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” he said.
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