Well, not only was he not locked up, his research was celebrated in the mainstream media and revered as the de facto standard model for studying human sexuality. When some of the kids involved in the research grew up and started talking about how their molestation ended up in these research studies, people had to seriously reevaluate whether Kinsey's work was as noble as everyone made it out to be. Either way, Hollywood still seems to celebrate his ideas on sexuality, maybe unsurprisingly so.