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Jacob Geller… Jacob Geller… Sigh… I am, as somebody who believes in rehabilitation (and the role it plays in prison reform and our fight against punitive justice) and the need to provide the tools for it, always mortified by cases like these, right? Because here’s the thing:

How do I reconcile those two ideas? The idea of rehabilitation and possibility of personal change WITH the idea of a sexual crime being one of (if not THE) most egregious things one can commit… Should somebody who is sorry and has taken steps to make amends be permitted a life outside the confines

of their mistake? If so, to what degree? And if you believe in rehabilitation you HAVE to belief in the possibility of real regret and repentance, let’s make that clear. So what do we do? How do I say “toxic masculinity and oppressive patriarchy not only dehumanizes young women

of these fuckers decides to do some shit like this… And the sad reality is that there exists no space in which we can honestly talk about these feelings without being branded an apologist for either not rehashing the same thing we are all already saying or not knowing what some