ACLU wants porn to be allowed for South Carolina inmates

[JBeukema]

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.
The ACLU said it wants prisoners to be able to read and view pornography. Lawyers for the jail said that just won't happen.

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

 

[sparky]

first off, the aclu is probably answering a complaint here JB

say what you will of them, they'd back Satan himself if he had a b*tch about his civil rights

2ndly, not all prisions operate the same, for instance down in biblethumperville, i'm sure porn is a no no. In my correspondence to an incarcerated individual in NYC, i'm hearing the closed circuit tv changes from daily nascar to nightly porn

i guess someone figured out doin' themselves is less hassle than doin' each other...

 

[WorldWatcher]

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.
The ACLU said it wants prisoners to be able to read and view pornography. Lawyers for the jail said that just won't happen.

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

You realize that the linked article in your OP makes no direct quote from the ACLU about porn.

Here is one directly from an ACLU representative...

""The latest thing they have come up with in response for preliminary injunction was the notion that we are trying to allow pornography into the jail. Absolutely nothing could be further for the truth," ACLU spokesman Will Matthews told the Daily News." LINK


In addition here is the actual complaint

The Detention Center has a policy and practice of allowing detainees to order from a publisher, and receive by mail, a soft-cover Bible – but no other books, magazines, or newspapers. On July 12, 2010, First Sergeant K. Habersham, Berkeley County Detention Center, sent the following email to Paul Wright, Editor, Prison Legal News:

"Our inmates are only allowed to receive soft back bibles in the mail directly from the publisher. They are not allowed to have magazines, newspapers, or any other type of books."​

http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/2010-10-6-PLNvBCS-Complaint.pdf



Sounds like a misrepresentation of what the lawsuit is about. If the Jail was allowing Bibles but rejecting all other magazines, newspapers, and softback (non-stable) books, then ya - I can see that as an issue.



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[sparky]

per usual , the aclu is the kicking post for retards.....

 

[Two Thumbs]

Criminals give up thier civil rights.

They should be happy to get to read the bible, instead of sitting in thier cells with nothing to do.

 

[chanel]

I would assume that most prisons have libraries. The inmates are not allowed their own subscriptions to magazines for obvious reasons. This is not just about porn. There are many other "objectionable" materials that are prohibited in jail. And yes, they do give up rights in prison - namely - freedom. Hopefully the ACLU will lose. Otherwise, we'll see copies of "Al Qaeda Times" and bombmakers handbooks.

 

[Two Thumbs]

I would assume that most prisons have libraries. The inmates are not allowed their own subscriptions to magazines for obvious reasons. This is not just about porn. There are many other "objectionable" materials that are prohibited in jail. And yes, they do give up rights in prison - namely - freedom. Hopefully the ACLU will lose. Otherwise, we'll see copies of "Al Qaeda Times" and bombmakers handbooks.

It would be easier to list the ones that don't have libraries. Prisons or jails.

Mags have staples in them, thats metal. Theres not a lot you can do with it, unless you are a criminal, then there's lots of things that can get done.

 

[Trajan]

per usual , the aclu is the kicking post for retards.....

hyperbole much?



there were 3 posts before this, one of them being yours, not one spoke to the aclu in a negative state that would elicit such a statement....hows your knee?

 

[Purewell]

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Sounds like a misrepresentation of what the lawsuit is about. If the Jail was allowing Bibles but rejecting all other magazines, newspapers, and softback (non-stable) books, then ya - I can see that as an issue.



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so really this is a issue with only being allowed to buy bibles and not other religious books, magazines or whatever then?

the jail is not "only" full of bad Christians I would guess, so they may as well allow everyone to order what suits their own beliefs

 

[LAfrique]

If inmates buying and paying, then I see no problem.

 

[WillowTree]

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.
The ACLU said it wants prisoners to be able to read and view pornography. Lawyers for the jail said that just won't happen.

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

There's a good reason why they're called the american criminal liberties union yep.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I would assume that most prisons have libraries. The inmates are not allowed their own subscriptions to magazines for obvious reasons. This is not just about porn. There are many other "objectionable" materials that are prohibited in jail. And yes, they do give up rights in prison - namely - freedom. Hopefully the ACLU will lose. Otherwise, we'll see copies of "Al Qaeda Times" and bombmakers handbooks.

The policy also prohibits educational material. should inmates not be able to educate themselves in an attempt not to go back to prison? It is quite possible to restrict access to things that inmates should not be allowed to have, for security reasons without further burdening their attempts to educate themselves.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Sounds like a misrepresentation of what the lawsuit is about. If the Jail was allowing Bibles but rejecting all other magazines, newspapers, and softback (non-stable) books, then ya - I can see that as an issue.

Correct:

The ACLU vehemently dismissed the lawyers' claims.

"The latest thing they have come up with in response for preliminary injunction was the notion that we are trying to allow pornography into the jail. Absolutely nothing could be further for the truth," ACLU spokesman Will Matthews told the Daily News.

Matthews said the jail's policy was simply too broad. He pointed to a mail room clerk at the jail who told the organization that prisoners were previously banned from receiving a publication with a Venus de Milo sculpture and a copy of the Washington Post because it contained an ad with women in lingerie.

"None of this is to suggest that jails must permit pornography," the injunction states. "Merely that a jail cannot constitutionally ban all publications that sometimes show men and women wearing underwear or dressed for the beach."

ACLU sues South Carolina jail over literature ban, prison&#39;s lawyers say ACLU wants to allow porn

Criminals give up thier civil rights.

Incorrect - Clarence Gideon and the Supreme Court disagree:

Gideon v. Wainwright | The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Even the most chronic or hardened inmates have basic rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Rights of Inmates - Learn About the Law

 

[Polk]

Criminals give up thier civil rights.

They should be happy to get to read the bible, instead of sitting in thier cells with nothing to do.

If other religious works are banned, Bibles should be banned.

Or, you know, they could let them read religious and educational materials.

 

[Polk]

I would assume that most prisons have libraries. The inmates are not allowed their own subscriptions to magazines for obvious reasons. This is not just about porn. There are many other "objectionable" materials that are prohibited in jail. And yes, they do give up rights in prison - namely - freedom. Hopefully the ACLU will lose. Otherwise, we'll see copies of "Al Qaeda Times" and bombmakers handbooks.

The policy also prohibits educational material. should inmates not be able to educate themselves in an attempt not to go back to prison? It is quite possible to restrict access to things that inmates should not be allowed to have, for security reasons without further burdening their attempts to educate themselves.

I think time just froze.

 

[chanel]

My guess is that a majority of the prisoners in SC are illiterate. They don't want books; they want pictures to masturbate to.

If people are so concerned about the education of inmates, they can send books and money to organizations that promote that cause. But that's not what this lawsuit is about.

 

[sparky]

per usual , the aclu is the kicking post for retards.....

hyperbole much?



there were 3 posts before this, one of them being yours, not one spoke to the aclu in a negative state that would elicit such a statement....hows your knee?

The OP targets the aclu for something it did not do Traj, the aclu then needs to defend itself from something it did not do.

Just another one of a long string of accusations constantly spewed to discredit the gaurdians of our civil rights by unsavory sorts i wouldn't spit on were they on fire

Of course, if you're not big on civil rights, it ain't no skin is it?

 

[sparky]

My guess is that a majority of the prisoners in SC are illiterate. They don't want books; they want pictures to masturbate to.

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ever on the solution trail......