SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman ignited widespread outrage will leave jail three months early.
Online inmate records show 20-year-old Brock Turner is expected to be released from the Santa Clara County jail on Sept. 2. He was booked June 2.
County jail inmates serve 50 percent of their sentences if they keep a clean disciplinary record. Calls to the county Department of Correction weren’t immediately returned Thursday.
Brock was convicted of attacking the woman he met at a fraternity party in January 2015 and was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years’ probation.
The sentence triggered criticism that a star athlete from a privileged background had gotten special treatment. Prosecutors had asked for six years in prison.
This story has been corrected to show that Turner would be released three months early, not two.
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6 months…wait now 4 months. For rape. I have no words.
I hav a quite a selection you can use…and none of them polite
I just hope the inmates where he is going school him in what someone goes tru when their raped…some real life experience is what he needs from he female perpective…he may even get taught how to toss someone’s salad…see he can even learn a trade when he’s in jail…
That looks like THREE months early to me. June 2 to September 2, 50% of a six month sentence.
Rape is never acceptable, period, full stop. A prison environment in which rape is ignored is also unacceptable, especially with the problems of commercialized over incarceration and a racially biased school to prison pipeline. That isn’t justice, or even the least bit funny.