Carolina back to work." Greene favored measures to lower the price of gas and supported offshore drilling. Government reform Greene cited the example of mismanagement at the Pentagon as proof that greater accountability in government is needed. He criticized corporate influence on politics, saying that "Half the members of the US Senate work for BP. The other half work for Halliburton." Health care In an editorial published in The Guardian as "The Alvin Greene manifesto for a fairer America", Greene explained his political views in more detail and attacked the political establishment. Greene advocated free universal health care, saying that the United States should model its system on Austria, Britain, or Canada. Judicial reform Greene supported the idea that the severity of penalty for a misdeed or wrongdoing should be reasonable and proportionate to the severity of the infraction. “Fairness saves us money,” he said in an interview. “There are innocent people incarcerated. We spend more than two times of our taxpayer dollars on inmates than on students.” Criminal proceedings 2010 obscenity charges In June 2010, the media reported that Greene was facing felony obscenity charges stemming from an incident that had occurred the previous fall at the University of South Carolina. The incident occurred in a basement computer lab on the University of South Carolina campus. According to student Camille McCoy, a man (later identified as Greene) told her to look at his computer screen; pornographic images were displayed on it. McCoy told him that this was "offensive and not funny". Greene then allegedly asked if he could come to her room. McCoy has stated that the situation "was kind of scary. He's a pretty big boy. He could've overpowered me." McCoy then went to her room and told her resident mentor what had happened. Greene was later arrested. Greene has asserted that he was joking when he spoke to McCoy, and that he believed she owed him an apology for pressing charges. In an affidavit, police said that they had surveillance video showing the interaction. On August 12, 2010, a Richland County grand jury indicted Greene for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity (a felony) as well as a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent. On June 6, 2011, Greene accepted the Richland County prosecutor's offer to enter a pretrial diversion program which would expunge his record of both charges after he completed a