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2012-01-10 12:53:47 PM
Ick.
 
2012-01-10 01:16:41 PM
It should be encouraged. That pent up aggression has to go somewhere.
 
2012-01-10 01:17:24 PM
Maybe if they jacked off more frequently they wouldn't be so angry and unmanageable all the time. And maybe it would reduce the rate of prison rape (much to the chagrin of the Fark ITG contingent).
 
2012-01-10 01:18:55 PM
I'm so relieved to know that the ACLU is fighting for the "First Amendment right" of prisoners to possess pr0n.
 
2012-01-10 01:20:34 PM
Moar like sick than sad.
 
2012-01-10 01:20:39 PM
Guess what came in the mail?


I did.
 
2012-01-10 01:20:46 PM
I'm kind of disturbed that was banned in the first place. Were I inclined to want to correct the world I might be curious if it's also banned here, or is one of those weird things that just makes sense to Americans.
 
2012-01-10 01:20:58 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. The situation seems to be well in hand.

Besides. They can put it in their lawyers hands, but it'll never stand up in court.
 
2012-01-10 01:21:26 PM
Um...welcome to Fark?
 
2012-01-10 01:22:00 PM
+1 Subby.

Oscar Wilde. Brilliant.

Bravo.
 
2012-01-10 01:22:37 PM
FTA: A similar case occurred in Florida in 2006: Broward County inmate Terry Lee Alexander was sitting alone on his bunk masturbating when a female deputy who was monitoring him from a central control room more than 100 feet away took exception to Alexander's "blatant" exertions and wrote him up. Alexander was charged and convicted of exposure, with the jury determining that a cell is "a limited access public place." The same deputy had also filed reports on seven other locked-up masturbators. When Alexander's attorney asked the deputy in court if she had considered calling a SWAT team to halt his client's activity, she replied, "I wish I had."

She should be fired.

Porn? No. Masturbation? F*CK yeah!
 
2012-01-10 01:23:35 PM
hey want the state either to nix the nudie-mag ban or provide access to X-rated cable TV in order to alleviate their sensory deprivation.

You know what? fark you. It's bad enough that the honest taxpayer is having to support your felonious ass for years while you biatch and whine about anything you can think of. You get 3 hots and a cot, you don't have to work, and have all the free time you want to read and or study or watch tv. I'll be dammed if you'll get x rated cable when I can't even afford it, and I'm not a asshole felon. Try reading a book or furthering your education, and fap to your imagination, or in your buddies ass. Whatever works for you.
 
2012-01-10 01:23:57 PM
Don't they do that already? If this article is somehow asking for wank material for the lowlifes, no way. Should have thought of that before smoking that bowl. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

/get them a farking Maxim or whatever the new wank rag is already
//jeeze
 
2012-01-10 01:24:47 PM
They will take away my right to masturbate when they pry my willy from MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
 
2012-01-10 01:24:59 PM
They're choking the wrong thing.
 
2012-01-10 01:25:45 PM
Allen. The end.: FTA: A similar case occurred in Florida in 2006: Broward County inmate Terry Lee Alexander was sitting alone on his bunk masturbating when a female deputy who was monitoring him from a central control room more than 100 feet away took exception to Alexander's "blatant" exertions and wrote him up. Alexander was charged and convicted of exposure, with the jury determining that a cell is "a limited access public place." The same deputy had also filed reports on seven other locked-up masturbators. When Alexander's attorney asked the deputy in court if she had considered calling a SWAT team to halt his client's activity, she replied, "I wish I had."

She should be fired.

Porn? No. Masturbation? F*CK yeah!


This x100. What a drama queen. She would be absolutely useless if inmates actually were acting violently.
 
2012-01-10 01:27:36 PM
Yeah, and they oughtta just bottle up that nice prison masturbation smell and sell it in a can.
 
2012-01-10 01:27:46 PM
"C I L L my landlord"

/sorry, i thought it was a prison poetry thread
 
2012-01-10 01:28:29 PM
Is rape still ok?
 
2012-01-10 01:31:11 PM
The My Little Pony Killer: Allen. The end.: FTA: A similar case occurred in Florida in 2006: Broward County inmate Terry Lee Alexander was sitting alone on his bunk masturbating when a female deputy who was monitoring him from a central control room more than 100 feet away took exception to Alexander's "blatant" exertions and wrote him up. Alexander was charged and convicted of exposure, with the jury determining that a cell is "a limited access public place." The same deputy had also filed reports on seven other locked-up masturbators. When Alexander's attorney asked the deputy in court if she had considered calling a SWAT team to halt his client's activity, she replied, "I wish I had."

She should be fired.

Porn? No. Masturbation? F*CK yeah!

This x100. What a drama queen. She would be absolutely useless if inmates actually were acting violently.


/My sister in law works at a federal corrections prison, and when she does her rounds...it's pretty common for her to walk by a cell and see some douchebag fapping off, looking at her. She writes them up too. I don't blame her. She is forced to make the rounds of the cells, and I don't believe anyone would actually believe that it's "ok" for her to walk by a cell and see some guy spanking his pud like that guy in "silence of the lambs". So yes..they get sent to "the hole" where for a week they can spank it till it bleeds in privacy..
 
2012-01-10 01:31:58 PM
I am torn between sympathy for the inmates and sympathy for the prison staff.
 
2012-01-10 01:35:42 PM
The My Little Pony Killer: This x100. What a drama queen. She would be absolutely useless if inmates actually were acting violently.

The very fact that there CAN be female guards leads me to believe that prison is not nearly as hard core as we are expected to believe.

If she likes to watch so much give her the job of observing inmates while they masturbate.
 
2012-01-10 01:38:43 PM
Multiple Migs doesn't need much to crank his wank.
 
2012-01-10 01:39:46 PM
Shouldn't have smoked pot.
 
2012-01-10 01:39:49 PM
I came for this. Leaving satisfied.
 
2012-01-10 01:40:09 PM
Long article. Seems to go back and forth on the issue. Hard to read. Left disappointed at the climax. This is what passes for soft news.
 
2012-01-10 01:42:23 PM
We, who do not live in prison, because we have not done the crime, do not also have to do the time, and can therefore fap in the privacy of our own homes at will.

Prison should suck. Perhaps you'll try harder not to come back next time.
 
2012-01-10 01:42:29 PM
AverageAmericanGuy: Maybe if they jacked off more frequently they wouldn't be so angry and unmanageable all the time. And maybe it would reduce the rate of prison rape (much to the chagrin of the Fark ITG contingent).

I wonder what the cost benefit breakdown would be between issuing fleshlights versus hiring more guards.

Upon entry to prison you get a cavity search, a hosedown, a jumpsuit, and a fleshlight. But just the base model, none of that custom porn star stuff. I mean, it is prison after all.
 
2012-01-10 01:43:24 PM
Out of curiosity...what does the cell mate do while this is going on? Do they wait 'til the other is asleep or away working in the laundry or something?
 
2012-01-10 01:43:27 PM
FTA: Female guards have another virtue: In most jurisdictions, they can legally oversee housing units for both male and female inmates, whereas men often are permitted to guard and conduct pat-searches only on other men.

Yet another example of discrimination against women.
 
2012-01-10 01:45:55 PM
~Burma Shave
 
2012-01-10 01:47:16 PM
It's as basic and necessary a biological function as defecating or urinating. And no more disgusting for the cellmate to have to endure.
 
2012-01-10 01:48:46 PM
eloquent
 
2012-01-10 01:54:09 PM
Prison mirrors modern American society. They both keep piling on restrictions to people's activities and new rules to follow. These policies have the net effect of removing ways for people to decompress and blow off steam, resulting in more pent up hostilities and more violent behavior. This leads prison and society to conclude that people are more dangerous than before which leads to yet more rules etc.

It's a downward spiral that will destroy our way of life.
 
2012-01-10 01:56:09 PM
Bit'O'Gristle: /My sister in law works at a federal corrections prison, and when she does her rounds...it's pretty common for her to walk by a cell and see some douchebag fapping off, looking at her. She writes them up too. I don't blame her. She is forced to make the rounds of the cells, and I don't believe anyone would actually believe that it's "ok" for her to walk by a cell and see some guy spanking his pud like that guy in "silence of the lambs". So yes..they get sent to "the hole" where for a week they can spank it till it bleeds in privacy..


I hung out with a female corrections officer at a wedding reception once who admitted that it occasionally gets hard keeping the professional mask because "some of these guys are fiiiiiiiiiine".

/fine story bro
 
2012-01-10 01:57:29 PM
corn-bread: Prison mirrors modern American society. They both keep piling on restrictions to people's activities and new rules to follow. These policies have the net effect of removing ways for people to decompress and blow off steam, resulting in more pent up hostilities and more violent behavior. This leads prison and society to conclude that people are more dangerous than before which leads to yet more rules etc.

It's a downward spiral that will destroy our way of life masturbation.


FTFY
 
2012-01-10 01:57:48 PM
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
 
2012-01-10 02:00:09 PM
Bit'O'Gristle: /My sister in law works at a federal corrections prison, and when she does her rounds...it's pretty common for her to walk by a cell and see some douchebag fapping off, looking at her. She writes them up too. I don't blame her. She is forced to make the rounds of the cells, and I don't believe anyone would actually believe that it's "ok" for her to walk by a cell and see some guy spanking his pud like that guy in "silence of the lambs". So yes..they get sent to "the hole" where for a week they can spank it till it bleeds in privacy

The guy in silence of the lambs flung it at her, which nobody expects her to put up with.

But at the same time she has to watch people shower and shiat so seeing them rub one out should be no big deal.
 
2012-01-10 02:00:56 PM
corn-bread: Prison mirrors modern American society. They both keep piling on restrictions to people's activities and new rules to follow. These policies have the net effect of removing ways for people to decompress and blow off steam, resulting in more pent up hostilities and more violent behavior. This leads prison and society to conclude that people are more dangerous than before which leads to yet more rules etc.

It's a downward spiral that will destroy our way of life.


It's also made worse by the for-profit prison industry, which has profit incentives to make things as bad as possible for as long as possible.

Prisons should be a money-losing operation. Heresy to say in America, but true nonetheless.
 
2012-01-10 02:03:07 PM
I'm all for treating convicts humanely, but demanding X-rated cable makes me wish a few of these guys would get a beating from the guards.

... Alright, not really, but they deserve a smack upside the head and work duty to say the least.
 
2012-01-10 02:06:53 PM
liam76: Bit'O'Gristle: /My sister in law works at a federal corrections prison, and when she does her rounds...it's pretty common for her to walk by a cell and see some douchebag fapping off, looking at her. She writes them up too. I don't blame her. She is forced to make the rounds of the cells, and I don't believe anyone would actually believe that it's "ok" for her to walk by a cell and see some guy spanking his pud like that guy in "silence of the lambs". So yes..they get sent to "the hole" where for a week they can spank it till it bleeds in privacy

The guy in silence of the lambs flung it at her, which nobody expects her to put up with.

But at the same time she has to watch people shower and shiat so seeing them rub one out should be no big deal.


I have a relative who works as a nurse in a minimum to medium security prison. She once related a story to me of visiting a convict with psych problems and conversing with him as he smeared feces on the wall of his cell.

My point being that I reluctantly agree with you. Some of these people are in cages because they're socially inept and can't function within society's rules. If you work with them, you have to expect to seem some foul stuff.
 
2012-01-10 02:07:36 PM
Given that most people believe institutionally sanctioned prison rape should be part of the punishment of even the most minor offenses, this is not shocking at all.
 
2012-01-10 02:07:43 PM
corn-bread: Prison mirrors modern American society. They both keep piling on restrictions to people's activities and new rules to follow. These policies have the net effect of removing ways for people to decompress and blow off steam, resulting in more pent up hostilities and more violent behavior. This leads prison and society to conclude that people are more dangerous than before which leads to yet more rules etc.

It's a downward spiral that will destroy our way of life.


What freedoms have Americans been losing?
 
2012-01-10 02:10:46 PM
farkityfarker: It's as basic and necessary a biological function as defecating or urinating. And no more disgusting for the cellmate to have to endure.

I'm not for the porn (others have mentioned) but I agree with your statement that it's as natural as shiatting and pissing. It should be allowed especially since the only reason it's banned is because of "da debil!"
 
2012-01-10 02:16:01 PM
I really don't understand the whole "Prison should suck" thing. I mean, it does. You lose a *ton* of freedoms. Freedom of mobility. Freedom of association... Your time isn't your own. Your food sucks. You are living with people who suck as much if not more than you. You can be *forced* to work for free, which was slavery last time I checked, unless you're an inmate.

Are we really so sadistic that without regard to the type of crime committed, simply BEING in prison demands that everything we can possibly do to make your life miserable short of torture?

I have an idea, let's actually remove the toilets from their cells and force them to poop communally into a trough that gets cleaned once a week! Then we can stop providing toilet paper too! OO OO! What if they are fed through a little hole in their cells like a gerbil. And only get the minimum ration of water necessary for survival!

/The whole thing just disgusts me a little.
 
2012-01-10 02:16:40 PM
Bit'O'Gristle: hey want the state either to nix the nudie-mag ban or provide access to X-rated cable TV in order to alleviate their sensory deprivation.

You know what? fark you. It's bad enough that the honest taxpayer is having to support your felonious ass for years while you biatch and whine about anything you can think of. You get 3 hots and a cot, you don't have to work, and have all the free time you want to read and or study or watch tv. I'll be dammed if you'll get x rated cable when I can't even afford it, and I'm not a asshole felon. Try reading a book or furthering your education, and fap to your imagination, or in your buddies ass. Whatever works for you.


You know, if you think they have it so good, you could ask to trade places with them,
 
2012-01-10 02:18:01 PM
farkityfarker: It's as basic and necessary a biological function as defecating or urinating. And no more disgusting for the cellmate to have to endure.

Its also a method for passing the time.
...Time that was bought at great expense to the taxpayer. A cost necessitated because of the crimes these men have committed against us.
So I'm not seeing a real reason to be sympathetic.

A better solution:
dl.dropbox.com

Now get back to doing your penance.

/Cant do the time, don't do the crime.
/Drop that bong or we detach your schlong.
/Get caught and your crime spree won't be the only thing cut short.
/If you try to give society the shaft, society should collect.
/Take the peni out of penitentiary.
/Have them press out tee-shirts with penis detachment slogans for extra cruelty, its a win-win!
 
2012-01-10 02:22:51 PM
bigtopfive.com.s120608.gridserver.com
 
2012-01-10 02:28:52 PM
way south: farkityfarker:
/Drop that bong or we detach your schlong.


That's right kids, we should punish any and all crimes regardless of how minor they are with castration.

Whilst we in the United States take the Chinese as a great example of how 'justice' should work, Norwegian recidivism rates remain the lowest in the world, and their prisons are hotels.
 
2012-01-10 02:31:07 PM
Make prisons rehabilitative, or just start executing everyone. Either way is good with me, but our current system lines pockets, serves sick sadistic fantasies, and encourages recidivism.
 
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