ACLU Pushes To Permit Prison Porn 4
The ACLU is fighting for your right to look at porn should you ever find yourself in a South Carolina prison. The Hill-Finklea Detention Center banned porn saying that it led to increased violence in the facility. A preliminary hearing on the case is scheduled in June. "If they don't like the wording in some of our policies, we'll be happy to try and create better wording for them. But, there are certain issues that we're just not going to be able to bend on," said Sandra J. Senn, an attorney for the Hill-Finklea Detention Center in Berkeley County.
Violence? (Score:1)
I've never flown into a rage after viewing porn. Also, they view movies and television shows in prisons with moderate amounts of nudity. Have any riots started because of cleavage?
While I understand prison is punishment, I would sooner believe that forced sexual repression can probably cause manias and lead to deviant/violent behavior. It's like the effect of Drunk Tank Pink [colormatters.com]. Several municipalities have tried it. And while the color does create calm for a while, after an extended period and over exposur
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Speak for your own government's system, but most theories of prison I've heard combine elements of punishment, prevention (by having people isolated from the society they've harmed in the past ; hence you're not allowed to continue running your crack-dealership from a mobile phone in the Big House), and most cost-effectively, rehabilitation (so they don't want to do [whatever] again).
Of course, if you've got private organisations or individuals profiting from the inc
I understand I'm old, but... (Score:1)
I get it that we should treat our prisioners better than the rest of the world, or at least better than most, however...
What the FUCK ever happend to prisons being for PUNISHMENT? I hear all you folks out there saying "oh, but we're trying to rehabilitate these poor folks". Personally, I'm not for rehab. The fact that a prisoner has a better shot at getting a college education than the less well off members of society just sickens me every time I think about it. A friend of mine was joking the other day say