Ex-UW student first in county to go to prison under new law for possessing child porn

On Monday, a former UW-Madison doctoral student will be the first in Dane County to go to prison under a new wrinkle in a state law that bans the possession of child pornography. On the books since April, the revised law requires state judges in nearly all cases to sentence those convicted of having child pornography to three years in prison, putting teeth to what had been, since 2006, a strong suggestion. Full Story: Wisconsin State Journal

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