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Connecticut Prisoners Express Anger Over Porn Ban
October 8, 2011 4:12 PM
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By PAT EATON-ROBB
Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A group of prisoners has begun a letter-writing campaign to protest what they see as an unfair ban on pornography inside the state’s correctional institutions.
The Department of Correction announced in July that it would be banning all material that contains “pictorial depictions of sexual activity or nudity” from the prisons beginning next summer.
The state says the ban is intended to improve the work environment for prison staffers, especially female staffers, who might be inadvertently exposed to pornography.
“While it is not supposed to be displayed, it is still visible to staff, whether it be on the inside of a foot locker or underneath their bunks, so they are still exposed to it,” said Correction Department spokesman Brian Garnett. “And secondarily, is the fact that this is contrary to our rehabilitative efforts, particularly when it comes to sex offenders.”
The department has received about three dozen letters from inmates, many of them form letters, claiming the recently adopted ban violates the inmates’ First Amendment rights. Some of those letters also were sent to The Associated Press.
They suggest either lifting the ban or providing inmates with alternatives such as “cable programming that offers and displays nudity, also sexual activity.”
The letters say the suggestions are being made to avoid litigation. The department has not received any lawsuits, Garnett said.
Bill Dunlap, a law professor at Quinnipiac University, said there is a constitutional argument to be made. But, he said the courts have generally sided with prison officials, as long as they can prove the ban has a legitimate goal other than to simply suppress material that some people might find objectionable _ such as maintaining safety in the prisons, or keeping the material out of the hands of sex offenders.
“The courts don’t require the prison officials to look for other ways of achieving those goals without infringing on First Amendment rights, to the extent that they would for government outside the prison,” he said. “Based on the press release and the notice to the prisoners, it looks as though it’s in the general area of regulations that have been upheld in the past.”
But the state’s total ban on sexually explicit material appears to go beyond bans that the Supreme Court has upheld in the past, he said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut said is not representing any of the inmates and doesn’t advocate for pornography in prisons, but is concerned that the ban could be enforced in an arbitrary and overly broad manner.
“Similar regulations have been used to censor an image of the Sistine Chapel, newspapers and magazines with lingerie ads and the novel `Ulysses,”’ Andrew Schneider, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut, said in a statement.
Garnett said the department is confident the ban will survive any legal challenge. The ban doesn’t include material that could be considered literary, educational, artistic or scientific, he said. Decisions on whether a picture meets those exceptions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
“It’s, to put it mildly, not a difficult decision when it comes to most of this material,” he said.
Inmates were given a year to dispose of any pornography they might have, which will allow any current magazine subscriptions to run their course, he said. The total ban will take effect in July 2012.
After that, material considered to be pornography will be taken as contraband and inmates found with it could face such punishments as a loss of commissary privileges, loss of phone or the loss of visits.
The ban has the support of the union that represents prison guards. Lisamarie Fontano, president of Local 387 of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, said she has been pushing for such a ban for several years, and has received complaints from female employees who have been sexually harassed by inmates using pornography.
“It’s a betterment to all to have it gone,” she said. “Some inmates don’t want it, because their own sexual and mental issues were being forced onto them, even though it shouldn’t be there in the first place.”
Prisoners also use pornography as currency in prison, trading the pictures for other things of value, she said.
Garnett said Commissioner Leo Arnone decided on a total ban after studying what was being done in other states.
Policies vary widely. Many states, including Connecticut, tried to ban only material deemed deviant. Under current state regulations, inmates can have sexually explicit material as long as it does not depict children, bestiality, sadomasochism or the use of force.
“There was a never-ending problem with definitions of what you were trying to ban and keeping up with what was out there,” Garnett said.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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I didn't even know porn was allowed in jail!
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If 333386 post this thread, the person must be black
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This is probably dumb. If the inmates are more high strung, there will be more rapes, fights, fights w guards, etc.
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Well, take the porn away and violence and rapes will rocket sky high, pretty stupid move.
It hurts nobody when these guys lie wanking in their cells all day.
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If 333386 post this thread, the person must be black
Based on stats of prison inmates, state and federal. . . . . . .
Say let the inmates keep the pornography. I know a few prison guards and the last thing they want are uptight angry inmates.
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as a result, violent anal rape in prisons has risen 156%
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Well, take the porn away and violence and rapes will rocket sky high, pretty stupid move.
It hurts nobody when these guys lie wanking in their cells all day.
Looks like it was the female staff who complained. I mean really? Do these biotches need to be in there?
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as a result, violent anal rape in prisons has risen 156%
after a few gang rapes, the porn will probably be trucked in to quell the frustration.
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Well, take the porn away and violence and rapes will rocket sky high, pretty stupid move.
It hurts nobody when these guys lie wanking in their cells all day.
They should be confined to their cell for the duration of their sentence. Give 'em salt peter or if they desire conjugal visits I would imagine good ol' tbombz would volunteer to be a prison pin cushion. So long as they all have larger dongs than he does or at least look better than he does and have a dick. Or something to that affect, according to him.
Solitary confinement and no sex allowed. Castrate them and then shoot 'em full of regular doses of estrogen. Dumb ass criminals.
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They should be confined to their cell for the duration of their sentence. Give 'em salt peter or if they desire conjugal visits I would imagine good ol' tbombz would volunteer to be a prison pin cushion. So long as they all have larger dongs than he does or at least look better than he does and have a dick. Or something to that affect, according to him.
Solitary confinement and no sex allowed. Castrate them and then shoot 'em full of regular doses of estrogen. Dumb ass criminals.
even for something like tax evasion?
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Well, take the porn away and violence and rapes will rocket sky high, pretty stupid move.
It hurts nobody when these guys lie wanking in their cells all day.
I agree. A lot of the young punks (gangbangers) in Corcoran, Pelican Bay, DVI, San Quentin... they have very high testosterone levels.
All the officials are managing to do is escalate crime and our tax dollars. It's just gonna make them even more violent when they are out in General Population. You can't put them all in solitary.
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That's nothing, we have a dumbshit "progressive" gov that just passed a "dream act" and signed a bill that said you now have to be 18 to be in a tanning bed. You can be 16 to drive a car and 18 to tan.....what the fuck goes through libs minds. Total lack of commonsense.
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That's nothing, we have a dumbshit "progressive" gov that just passed a "dream act" and signed a bill that said you now have to be 18 to be in a tanning bed. You can be 16 to drive a car and 18 to tan.....what the fuck goes through libs minds. Total lack of commonsense.
I just see this backfiring big time.
when the next female staffer gets raped and the inmate blames the porn ban, what will these fools have to say for themselves.
me? I think we need to allow the guards to run the prison so that these inmates are sedated and distracted enough so that they do their time and leave without rape, murder, etc.
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I just see this backfiring big time.
when the next female staffer gets raped and the inmate blames the porn ban, what will these fools have to say for themselves.
me? I think we need to allow the guards to run the prison so that these inmates are sedated and distracted enough so that they do their time and leave without rape, murder, etc.
Dude your brain seems to stuck in survival mode, you react to every situation like somehow it's life or death, your actions go way beyond an interest or an obsession.
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Dude your brain seems to stuck in survival mode, you react to every situation like somehow it's life or death, your actions go way beyond an interest or an obsession.
Have two friends who are prison guards at Rikers in NYC and they tell me the best policy is to make it as easy as possible for these guys and the time just goes by. hey tell me the guys who are hard asses have the worst time.
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I guess they'll have to use National Geographic like the good old days.
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I guess they'll have to use National Geographic like the good old days.
LOL. Those droopy Boobed natives w bones in their nose do it for you bro?
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LOL. Those droopy Boobed natives w bones in their nose do it for you bro?
Beggars can't be choosers
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The inmates will still get porn... just like dope and cigs and weights.
It's just gonna be harder (I meant "difficult") ;D
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The inmates will still get porn... just like dope and cigs and weights.
It's just gonna be harder (I meant "difficult") ;D
YEPP!
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Very stupid to stir the hornets nest like that.
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Well, take the porn away and violence and rapes will rocket sky high, pretty stupid move.
It hurts nobody when these guys lie wanking in their cells all day.
x2
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That's nothing, we have a dumbshit "progressive" gov that just passed a "dream act" and signed a bill that said you now have to be 18 to be in a tanning bed. You can be 16 to drive a car and 18 to tan.....what the fuck goes through libs minds. Total lack of commonsense.
Don't you know how many people die of these sunbeds every year??
As opposed to cars, that really no one harm and are perfectly safe, or guns?
I say they did the right thing, ban those devilish machines all together and put ALL supplements and vitamins on prescription too, they are fucking dangerous, as opposed to cigarettes and alcohol, which are perfectly good for you.
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I thought in prison there was only bible.
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I thought in prison there was only bible.
Didn't know they could access getbig in the pen.
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Didn't know they could access getbig in the pen.
Hhaha, me neither. Maybe this is the liberalism that Teh Coach always talks about.