Updated 8:29 am, Thursday, October 16, 2014
LONDON (AP) - Novelist John Grisham says the United States is handing out unduly harsh prison sentences for child pornography offenses to men who probably just had too much to drink and 'pushed the wrong buttons.'
Grisham told Britain's Daily Telegraph that U.S. prisons were 'filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who have never harmed anybody, would never touch a child.'
He said many of those jailed 'got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons, went too far and got into child porn.'
In an interview published Thursday to promote his latest legal thriller, 'Gray Mountain,' Grisham said he had 'no sympathy for real pedophiles' but that others were being punished too harshly.
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