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ACLU wants porn to be allowed for South Carolina inmates

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MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (KABC) -- The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for porn at a detention center in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

The move came after reports surfaced that the facility only allowed inmates to read the Bible. But prison officials said that isn't true and inmates have a wide variety of reading material at their disposal.

ACLU wants porn to be allowed for South Carolina inmates | abc7.com


Anyone think this is a good idea? Or what the ACLU should be wasting their time on?

j-mac
 
Some people might call this pandering to the inmates, giving them liberties they don't deserve. But within the prison system, things like this can be used as incentives for good behavior. Plus it might help cut down on violence & homosexual stuff.
 
Anyone think this is a good idea? Or what the ACLU should be wasting their time on?

j-mac

I'm kind of surprised it's not allowed, actually. It's legal reading material...it's not child porn, I assume. But garden variety porn? Why not?
 
Not porn but how about Daniel Steele romance novels.. LOL That'll fix em.. :)


Tim-
 
I dont see how this could be a bad thing.
Hell like already stated before maybe it will cut down on rape and what not.
 
As long as the prison system isn't paying for the porn, sure, why not. Doesn't bother me. And I don't really believe that porn leads people to be more likely to commit violence or sexual assault. They really need some legitimate studies to support those claims.
 
Anyone think this is a good idea? Or what the ACLU should be wasting their time on?

j-mac

No, it would be a very bad idea. Not really complex...


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I don't really have an issue with porn in jails. I don't think the jails should specifically be PROVIDING it, but if the inmate gets it through legal means (I honestly don't know if you can bring books in for inmates to read or something) then I see no real issue with it.

Hey, my wife likes playboy for the articles...who knows why they may want it ;)
 
Just have Redbox install a specially furnished unit in the prisoner lounge.
 
I don't know why they shouldn't allow it. Of course if it is a private "Christian" run facility, it will never happen.

Seems to me that the humane policy would be conjugal visits.
 
Anyone think this is a good idea? Or what the ACLU should be wasting their time on?

j-mac

The way I look at is if they want to look at porn then they shouldn't be in prison. Prison is a punishment.Porn is the last thing they should receive.
 
Anyone think this is a good idea? Or what the ACLU should be wasting their time on?

j-mac

Why also not Brothels and Gay Pride Parades in Prisons, ACLU makes anything possible.
 
If you ask me inmates have it like paradise in jail today! They have weights, Basketball courts, tennis courts, therapy i could go on forever! My point is, if you are in jail you clearly are in there because you committed a crime and you need to be punished. Get rid of all the fun and games and make jail a living hell so that the inmates never come back!
 
Any organization that supports porn is an organization we should all support.
 
If you ask me inmates have it like paradise in jail today! They have weights, Basketball courts, tennis courts, therapy i could go on forever! My point is, if you are in jail you clearly are in there because you committed a crime and you need to be punished. Get rid of all the fun and games and make jail a living hell so that the inmates never come back!

Spoken like any other conservative who has never been to jail but thinks it's heaven. How would you like it if 3 black guys made you their bitch in an 8 by 10 every single day? You would probably like it because you'd get to play basketball after right? Maybe if some Aryan nation trick made you suck his dick after he's done his therapy? How about this, go and commit a crime, if jail is such a heaven, you'll probably be better off than the overwhelming majority of guys outside right? So please, flock to jail and enjoy that paradise.
 
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Spoken like any other conservative who has never been to jail but thinks it's heaven. How would you like it if 3 black guys made you their bitch in an 8 by 10 every single day? You would probably like it because you'd get to play basketball after right? Maybe if some Aryan nation trick made you suck his dick after he's done his therapy? How about this, go and commit a crime, if jail is such a heaven, you'll probably be better off than the overwhelming majority of guys outside right? So please, flock to jail and enjoy that paradise.

Wow I'm agreeing with Hatuey :peace


While I agree we do seem to be getting carried away in some aspects of what we are allowing in prisons to say its paradise you are sorely ignorant of what is like. Inmate violence affects every single inmate either by being directly victimized or by the fear of violence. Living every single day wondering if today is the day you are going to be beat up, stabbed, raped, or worse is a hellish experience. This is not even taking other aspects into consideration such as, lost of family contact, little means to work toward anything, hopelessness, years of life wasted, ect.

Live this for years and let me know just how much of a paradise it really is.
 
I don't know why they shouldn't allow it. Of course if it is a private "Christian" run facility, it will never happen.

Seems to me that the humane policy would be conjugal visits.

Wait. There are private "Christian" prisons?
 
Prison is not a Holiday Inn. Personally I do not care if convicts murder each other in prison. Cheaper for the Tax payer in the end if they do so. Prison should be horrible. Porn should not be allowed. Green Bologna sandwiches and coolaid 3 times a day. Chain gangs should work 12 hour days so inmates will be to damn tired to do a damn thing but shower and sleep till they wake up and do it all again.
 
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I've actually heard of prisoners who would draw a woman on paper and jerk off to it. The one's who cant draw probably butt rape a fellow inmate. Maybe giving them porn would result in less psycho stuff?
 
Porn is reading material?

I've never come across a skin flick with subtitles.

:thinking
 
How about we look at what will ultimately result in a lower recidivism rate and ignore the sadistic ****s with a hard-on for making convicts needlessly suffer? Stupid mother****ing ignorant “Get tough on crime!“ bull**** is the reason why we have the worst criminal justice system in the industrialized world. How the **** anybody can still thinks the god-damned puritanical sadists have any ****ing credence after such overwhelming evidence of dismal failure is beyond me.
 
I fail to understand why not.
 
Prison is not a Holiday Inn. Personally I do not care if convicts murder each other in prison. Cheaper for the Tax payer in the end if they do so. Prison should be horrible. Porn should not be allowed. Green Bologna sandwiches and coolaid 3 times a day. Chain gangs should work 12 hour days so inmates will be to damn tired to do a damn thing but shower and sleep till they wake up and do it all again.

Prison should be horrible? Prison is horrible. A bit of porn isn't going to change that.
 
Last time I checked, the First Amendment still applies to prisoners. If they have privileges to other reading materials and magazines, then porn should be no different as long as they are legal age to obtain some.

Also, I'm sure prison is a very sexually repressive experience in addition to the usual suffering that takes place there. I think porn gives inmates a healthy outlet.

That is, if course, if you favor the rehabilitative model of prisons, as opposed to the pure punitive model. I support the former and think the latter is obsolete.
 
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