John Legend Has a Message for People Who Think Felicity Huffman's Sentence Was Too Short
John Legend is speaking out in response to people who are calling for Felicity Huffman to get a longer prison sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal.
The former Desperate Housewives actress was sentenced to 14 days in prison. Many people have been comparing her sentence to that of homeless mom Tanya McDowell, who was sentenced to five years in prison for sending her son to the wrong school district.
John doesn’t think that either woman deserves the amount of prison time that they received.
“I get why everyone gets mad when rich person X gets a short sentence and poor person of color Y gets a long one. The answer isn’t for X to get more; it’s for both of them to get less (or even none!!!) We should level down not up,” John wrote on her Twitter account.
Click inside to read the rest of John Legend’s tweets on the subject…
I get why everyone gets mad when rich person X gets a short sentence and poor person of color Y gets a long one. The answer isn't for X to get more; it's for both of them to get less (or even none!!!) We should level down not up.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 14, 2019
Americans have become desensitized to how much we lock people up. Prisons and jails are not the answer to every bad thing everyone does, but we've come to use them to address nearly every societal ill.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 14, 2019
It's insane we locked a woman up for 5 years for sending her kid to the wrong school district. Literally everyone involved in that decision should be ashamed of themselves
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 14, 2019
It's unconscionable that we locked a woman up for voting when, unbeknownst to her, she was ineligible.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 14, 2019
Her sentence shouldn't be fewer years. It should be ZERO.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 14, 2019
And no one in our nation will benefit from the 14 days an actress will serve for cheating in college admissions. We don't need to lock people up for any of this stuff.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 14, 2019