DELANO, Calif. (AP) — “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has been sent to a California state prison to serve his sentence for two rape convictions.

Authorities said Wednesday that the 47-year-old Masterson has been admitted to North Kern State Prison, and they released his first prison mug shot. The photo shows him wearing orange prison attire, with long hair and a beard.

  • Davel23
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    To clarify, North Kern is an intake facility. He’ll be there for a few weeks undergoing psych evals and other testing to determine which facility he will be sent to for permanent incarceration.

    • @xor@sh.itjust.works
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      i’ve heard the racial stuff is really intense… so you either end up an Aryan Nation type, or you end up being bitched out by everyone else…
      but, since he’s rich and famous, he’ll probably get special treatment and be able to buy protection (like Jared Fogle)
      i’ve also heard that prisoners all hate rapists

  • @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    This is the first I’m hearing of this - Yes I’ve been living under a rock. Can anyone give me a brief rundown of what he did? The article said it happened in the 2000s but didn’t give specifics.

  • @swan_pr@lemmy.ca
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    Tangentially related but I rewatched Face/Off last night and realised he has a very short role, extremely foreshadowing.

  • @Oderus@lemmy.world
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    He’s lucky we live in a civil society.

    I’d have voted to chemically castrate anyone convicted of rape and then put him in gen pop.

      • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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        Oh that’s easy the supreme Court already said it doesn’t matter. Being convicted is enough even if you are truly innocent.

      • Guy Dudeman
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        810 months ago

        Nobody is ever wrongfully convicted. We have the perfect system and it never ever makes mistakes.

        • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          “Just hormones.”

          Anyone who has ever seen someone on hormonal medication knows that it can profoundly change your outlook and personality. Even birth control can have emotional impacts on people, and they may not even notice it because the medication is so normalized that people don’t see it as a potential problem.

          • @StorminNorman@lemmy.world
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            I edited that bit cos I knew someone would think that was my entire point. But as you said yourself “it CAN have” (emphasis mine) undesirable effects. Most medications, hormonal or not, CAN have these effects. But the vast majority of people on these medications don’t get these effects. And even if every person who was chemically castrated suffered these effects (and again, they don’t, we wouldn’t use it to treat some diseases if it did), the fact it’s reversible makes it infinitely better than the death penalty. Reality isn’t perfect. There’s always gonna be compromises.

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              My observation is that it seems like a significant percentage of people do experience the side effects, but either don’t connect the dots to the medication, or the benefit outweighs the problem. A quick google search has revealed that this is an issue that is getting increased attention over the last few years.

              “The study of over a million Danish women over age 14, using hard data like diagnosis codes and prescription records, strongly suggests that there is an increased risk of depression associated with all types of hormonal contraception.

              …the IUD was particularly associated with depression in all age groups is especially significant, because traditionally, physicians have been taught that the IUD only acts locally and has no effects on the rest of the body. Clearly, this is not accurate.”

              https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/can-hormonal-birth-control-trigger-depression-201610172517

              “Among contraceptive users aged 15–49 in 2018, female permanent contraception was the most common method used (28%), followed by pills (21%), male condoms and IUDs (both 13%).”

              https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-method-use-united-states

              I’ve been having a little trouble finding out how many women specifically in that range are sexually active, but I found a few articles that seem to show that the numbers for men and women are around 70% - 75%. For the sake of this post, I’m going to call it 72%.

              I looked up the census data for 2018, which showed that there were 164,730,000 women living in the US at that time. 72% are likely to be sexually active, so that makes 118,605,600. Because I can’t be sure if they differentiated copper IUD’s from hormonal, we’ll just look at pills. 21% equals 24,907,176. About 2% of women in the Dutch study said they experienced depression from the pills, so that gives us 498,143.52—nearly half a million—women who are likely to be experiencing depression from pill form birth control alone. This number obviously increases when you include the other forms of hormonal birth control that I couldn’t calculate here, plus all the other forms of hormonal medication.

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                Not sure why you’ve posted all of this given I’ve not once mentioned hormonal contraceptives and there’s not much data here to support your claim… 2% is an incredibly low number. Sure, when you have such a large population it involves a lot of people, but statistically, it’s stupid low. You’ve also misinterpreted the data given a bit, the risk of depression when on a hormonal contraceptives was 2.2%. The risk of depression when not on one is 1.7%. Again, that affects a lot of people, but it’s not the number you’ve calculated being caused by the contraceptive alone, and is still statistically very low. So, I’m just gonna completely ignore your anecdotal observations given at the start of your comment and rely on the hard data you’ve given. Which, admittedly, is only for one branch of hormonal medicine, but the data given does neatly support my claim that most people don’t experience these wild side effects you initially ascribed to the treatments.

                • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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                  210 months ago

                  2 or 1% is a huge number when we are talking about hundreds of millions of people are you daft

                  An extra .5% is hundreds of thousands of people.

                  And the numbers are US only. There’s other countries that have this type of medication available.

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                  I did my best with the resources I had to come up with something more concrete than asserting that it is or isn’t a problem without anything to back it up. I may have made some errors, but the fact remains that there was a significant amount of recent information about the growing awareness of hormonal medication side effects.

                  I bet it doesn’t feel statistically insignificant when it is happening to you and people won’t believe you due to the perceived rarity of side effects.

                  And, finally returning to where we started, all of this is simply to say that I don’t think we should be imposing hormone meds as a punishment for anything.

        • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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          I guess we’re all going to slide past the gen pop as a shortcut to capital punishment. Makes the chemical castration kind of irrelevant, doesn’t it?

      • @Oderus@lemmy.world
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        In my scenario, the proof would have to be concrete so ideally there’s no such thing as wrongly convicted.

        Proof like caught in the act, semen / blood sample and / or video proof like with child porn.

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          Literally all of that can easily be falsified, and historically has been to wrongly imprison people.

          Caught in the act by the judge and jury themselves? Or by a witness who promises they saw it?

          Video proof like what AI can easily fabricate these days?

          • @Oderus@lemmy.world
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            It sounds like you don’t trust any evidence and think Danny was falsely imprisoned based on that lack of trust.

            Is everyone in jail innocent?

            • @jettrscga@lemmy.world
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              You’ve chosen to miss the point by taking my statement to extremes.

              If you demand harsher punishment, it’ll happen to at least one innocent person. It doesn’t matter who that innocent person is. You’re stating that’s okay with you.

        • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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          Basically impossible unless people start raping people in the police station, even then good luck getting cops to collect evidence on eachother

          Also semen… If I creampie my wife she can go claim rape? What about every other woman I’ve creampied? Why do you think any single piece of evidence could be strong enough for this sentence? Even a video could just be roleplay on it’s own.

          You need to read up on how people are prosecuted before making suggestions how they should be sentenced.

          • @Oderus@lemmy.world
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            If you creampie your wife and she uses that against you to charge you with rape, you married a cunt or you raped her. Or both.

            Great example Einstein.

            • @Nelots@lemm.ee
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              010 months ago

              So your response to “this can be easily faked” is “guess you should have picked a better wife”??

      • @forrgott@lemm.ee
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        And you’re basically valuing the quality of life of rapists over that if their victims.

        Unless you intend to rape somebody, what personal stake do you have in what form of punishment is appropriate for such a vile act?

          • @forrgott@lemm.ee
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            Is the person you replied to worse than the hypothetical rapist in their argument?

            I don’t see your point. So yeah, missing it big time.

      • @Oderus@lemmy.world
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        I’m admitting I’d support worse treatment for people who rape than what we do currently.

        If that makes me a shit person. I’m ok with that.