This is an unauthorized thought process.

Guess now they'll want to spend more time working on their hands-free orgasm technique...

/ Tantra FTW!

What the holy f*ck? Seriously? "I jerked it while locked up in a place where the only possible sex was rape, and now I wear an ankle bracelet, have to live in the worst part of town and have no hope whatsoever of obtaining gainful employment again." Great plan, guys.

Why don't they make like Lizzie Borden and give them 40 whacks?


Just wait til Miggs hears about this.

Weaver95: slayer199: This is a great idea. Let's make the inmates as frustrated as possible. I'm sure that will work out well.

alternatively, if we label them sex offenders then we virtually ensure that their lives are forever ruined. they'll be stuck in the system forever, and will help keep prison population levels up high.

Remember, Corrections Corporation execs have to eat too.

Prisoners should have the inalienable right to masturbate. They should probably be provided special rooms they can go to take care of business in privacy.

They are still human.

Weaver95: slayer199: This is a great idea. Let's make the inmates as frustrated as possible. I'm sure that will work out well.

alternatively, if we label them sex offenders then we virtually ensure that their lives are forever ruined. they'll be stuck in the system forever, and will help keep prison population levels up high.

This is why the concept of for-profit prisons is absolutely immoral. Prison should be a bad thing for all involved, so it is an incentive to improve society. If anyone in power benefits from filling prisons it's an incentive to make society worse.

In reality, they probably should be handing out porn and lube. Now that I think about it, they should let them smoke all the pot in the world. Could you image how relaxed the prisoner would be? The only reason they would riot would be from a raging case of the munchies.

Ed Grubermann: If you don't get shocked by what they do they'll stop doing it. The power they get from doing this is only the power the guards give them.

This, btw, is the way to handle trolls. Giving them an audience is perpetuating the problem.

Lock up men for years or maybe even the rest of their lives, and the pinheads of authority demand that the convicts not even spank it?

I sure hope they like having prison riots every Tuesday.

Ed Grubermann: If you don't get shocked by what they do they'll stop doing it. The power they get from doing this is only the power the guards give them.

Alternately, the guards and/or staff could punch them in the exposed cawk.

Problem solved.

I'd have gotten 10 years tacked on.

just today

Let em 'bate. Hell, issue every new inmate with a fleshlight. They won't have to open the cell again until their release date.

/release

Isn't masturbating in front of anyone (female prison guards included) already a sex offense? Why is a new law needed?

AverageAmericanGuy: Prisoners should have the inalienable right to masturbate. They should probably be provided special rooms they can go to take care of business in privacy.

Like a Wackenhut?

FirstNationalBastard: slayer199: This is a great idea. Let's make the inmates as frustrated as possible. I'm sure that will work out well.

Not to mention, it will add more time onto their sentences, meaning the corporations running the prisons can earn more profit. Plus, if they're on the sex offender registry now, they'll never make it outside of prison in the real world, and they'll soon be back in prison, where the corporations that run the prisons can make a profit off of them!

It's a win for all the corporations involved!

Why do you hate corporate America?

So, they're locked up with other frustrated people, can't smoke, have coffee or a civilized cocktail and they can't beat off?
Yes warden ma'am, this IS about power; as in your need to completely demoralize and destroy another human.

ongbok: I see nobody read the article.

Department officials say it's an ongoing problem at prisons such as the high security Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, where some inmates purposefully masturbate in front of staff, often female guards, counselors or other prison workers.

This isn't for the guy that is just minding his own business and beating off in his cell. This is for the guys that intentionally beat off in front of guards and other employees to intimidate them.

Intimidated by masturbation? Perhaps a career in a correctional facility is not for you.

mhuckins: From the article:

"... some inmates purposefully masturbate in front of staff, often female guards, counselors or other prison workers."

"The bill would only apply to inmates who are deemed to be targeting staff with their activity, and would not be used when someone inadvertently walks in on an inmate in a private moment, Garnett said."

Sometimes it helps to read the article before freaking out.

If those female guards and counselors have thin skin, maybe they shouldn't be working at a prison. I don't know why we have to keep changing the rules to let women work in certain professions.

I think ignoring is the way to go. And if you can't ignore them, turn your back and snicker with another prison employee, making sure the inmate sees you gesturing with your thumb and forefinger about two inches apart.

"She said the problem involves a relatively small group of inmates".
Now they're judging too ?

RTFA, nothing to see here, move along now

Sigh. I guess I have to weigh in here.

In Florida it's called "gunning," where an inmate intentionally masturbates in front of an officer or other staff member. Nobody cares if you do it in your cell under a blanket, where it can't be seen; that's pretty much expected.

Gunning, OTOH, is a pretty sick and common practice, and it's understandable that they'd want to increase the penalty for it. I won't weigh in on whether placement on the sex offender registry is proper, because those registries are so flawed to begin with.

Here, as of now at least, they can put an inmate who's a gunner on the loaf for doing it: 33-602.223, Florida Administrative Code:

"(3) Inmates in any confinement status may be placed on the special management meal for creating a security problem by any of the following acts:
(a) The throwing or misuse of food, beverage, food utensils, food tray, or human waste products;
(b) Spitting at staff;
(c) The destruction of food trays or utensils;
(d) Any other acts that would place staff in jeopardy if a serving tray or utensils were provided.
(4) Inmates on close or maximum management status may be placed on the special management meal as a result of intentional, unauthorized exposure of genitalia to staff.