> Prosecutors were able to gain access to the laptop, and police say forensic analysis showed Rawls downloading child pornography and saving it to the external hard drives.

My comment was more about this

> In practice there's a case where a defendant is being held in contempt (jailed) for years now

They are not still being held due to contempt, they were released. Now if he was convicted then thats different and the correct reason to be imprisoned.

> she

It was not a she.

The ruling showed that you can only be held for 18 months in the US for refusal. They would need to actually charge them with a crime if the government wanted more than that.