Felicity Huffman's sentence in the college admissions scandal is lenient. It's also fair.
to 14 days in federal prison, 250 hours of community service, a year of supervised release and a $30,000 fine for her participation in the college admissions bribery scheme. It’s a relative slap on the wrist to other viral stories of educational fraud, like, an African-American single mom whose was convicted of two felonies and initially sentenced to five years in jail for using her children’s father’s address to put them in a better school district.
Huffman paid $15,000 for an SAT proctor to correct her daughter’s wrong answers, cheating the girl’s way into a better score . Huffman is the first of dozens of parents swept up in “Operation Varsity Blues” to face legal consequences, and her punishment is a sign of what may come for others. And so of course we want to see parents like Huffman punished, because what she did was really bad. There are only so many open seats in any college or university; each already-privileged student whose mom helps to cheat her way in is potentially taking the spot of someone for whom higher education could be life-changing – or who at least earned the seat on her own merit. We are rightly appalled by that breach, and we understandably want to see it punished.
America’s culture of incarceration is fueled by punitive vengefulness, a belief that jail time is the first answer to wrongdoing. And though people who break the social contract in deep and damaging ways do need to face some punishment, punishment isn’t the same as restitution.
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