Porn In Jail?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1357213/prison-porn-ban-sparks-lawsuit-by-killer

Not in the UK (this time) but should 'art' pamphlets be allowed in jail?

This guy has got 50 years (ok the right-on liberals would never allow a sentence in this country like that so perhaps the question is moot) so is it right to deprive him of a small luxury?

[Old_Geezer]

Connecticut ?

Do i care much ?

If it keeps them quite it could be useful, but I don't see it as have b all to do with any human rights. How can anyone claim there is a right to have porn ?

[Old_Geezer]

OK, constitutional rights then. Same argument more or less.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't the serial killer, Dennis Nilsen, try to argue in court that he had a right to the consolations of porn in prison?

[jno]

if it's used to ban books like this

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

then it's a bad idea. Looks like he's right, they're just using the ban as a way of getting at him.

[sandyRoe]

Though, in his case, something like The Butchers Handbook might constitute porn.

[nailit]

last time I was in jail there were plenty of girlie mags knocking around. Werent allowed to stick any pictures from them on the walls though. (would probably offend the prison chaplins...)

[andy-hughes]

Under the rules, the prisoner is entitled to materials which are art-based, and that would appear to indicate that he should be eintitled to the material he wants, for the reason he has given.

The length of his sentence, and / or the the crime he has been sentenced for have no bearing on his request, or its denial.

[Old_Geezer]

He should tell them he's a Porn Again Christian and therefore it's a denial of his religious beliefs.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh god not worth going to jail for
in my opinion

[anotheoldgit]

When have nude models ever been classed as pornography?

[andy-hughes]

My point exactly AOG.

[agchristie]

Is this a case of surrealism?