Stanford rapist Brock Turner won’t serve full jail sentence

Convicted rapist Brock Turner will likely only serve half of his light six-month sentence due to ‘good behavior’. 

The universe continues to give us reasons to be angry about Brock Turner. This weeks saw news that the convicted rapist would only be sentenced to six months for an on-campus sexual assault of an unconscious woman.

Now it appears he won’t even serve out the full term of his extremely light sentence.

According to the AP, Turner will have his sentenced reduced since he’s such a good dude.

"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."

The good behavior clause that allows felons who mind their P’s and Q’s while behind bars was something that many thought would be something Turner would be able to lean on.

It turns out, that’s the case.

While it’s outrageous that Turner will only serve three months of his already unfathomable lenient sentence, this only further buries him beneath the public perception that has been created.

Turner will be out in three months for raping someone — but he raped someone. That’s a stain on your soul that never goes away and it’s something that our progressive society doesn’t brush off to the side like their a West Coast judge.

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Turner’s father can pout all he wants about his son’s life being ruined by a 14-year prison sentence, but this kid’s life is over. He may only serve three months in jail for a heinous crime but he’s always going to be ‘Brock Turner, Stanford Rapist’.

That doesn’t change the fact he got off with a slap on the wrist, and it absolutely doesn’t change the fact that someone else’s life was ruined by this who wasn’t asking for it. That’s the real tragedy we can’t afford to forget in our anger at the Stanford Rapist.