ACLU Pushes To Permit Prison Porn

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.

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I understand I'm old, but...

[Stone2065]

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 saying "you know, I need to do a crime that will get me in prison for 4-6 years. I need to get a free BS degree or two...". The problem was, it's no joke. With all the privilages a prisoner gets nowadays, (and yes, I understand the level of violence in prisons, so it's no cake walk) it's pretty sad that the less fortunate in society get worse treatment than someone that committed a Class A Felony, or six.

Re:Violence?

[RockDoctor]

While I understand prison is punishment,

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 incarceration business, then their interests lie precisely away from having an effective penal system. It their treatment of prisoners were effective at stopping crime, they'd put themselves out of business.