Minnesota House lawmakers are considering a bill that would toughen penalties for criminal sexual conduct and child pornography offenses.  Elizabeth Sullivan with Stillwater-based Empower Survivors says in the last four years she’s talked with thousands of survivors whose perpetrators never spent time in prison

 

The bill would prohibit judges from staying sentences in criminal-sex cases, require sex offenders to serve lifetime conditional release or probation, and mandate extensive probation for certain sex offenders