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Brickbat: How Bad Could Jail Be?

Charles Oliver | 1.10.2014 6:00 AM


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Former Country Club Hills, Missouri, police officer Timothy Jones has been sentenced to one year in county jail for coercing a woman into having sex with him. He pulled the woman over and told her he would arrest her for DUI if she did not have sex with him.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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