Federal Inmate Convicted of Drawing DIY Child Sexual Abuse Materials

This story is just layer upon layer of sad.
Department of Justice:

"According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Jesse Fernando Perez, 36, is currently serving a 121-month federal sentence for possession of child pornography at the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg, Virginia. While incarcerated, he copied images of children from books and magazines, and then drew on the images to create depictions of the children engaged in sexually explicit activity.

Perez faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison when sentenced on December 11. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors."

So he's already in prison for child porn.  They probably shouldn't be letting him have books and magazines with pictures of children in them, because he's weird like that.  He's obviously in a bad enough place in his life where he's liable to do stuff like this.

I don't feel right prosecuting someone for being such a pitiful little sad man that he would do something like this so he can wank, frankly.  The boy aint right.  Part of me feels like people shouldn't spend another FIFTEEN YEARS in prison for drawing dirty pictures of kids because they're too messed up to do anything better with their time.  I mean it's a seriously messed-up cry for help.

That said, a 36-year-old man who, if he didn't have access to actual sexual pictures of children, would go to this length to gratify himself, has to be kept out of circulation.  There's a reason even facsimiles of child porn are criminalized, and I agree with that.  It's why you can be arrested for trying to meet up with a decoy 12-year-old.

I just wish America wasn't the incarceration nation, and we were actually helping people.  Why is there always so much sexual violence?  WTF?  Why is prison the answer to every problem?