Should prison inmates have the right to masturbate?

[JustRiley]

https://www.slate.com/articles/heal...tes_have_the_right_to_masturbate_.single.html

 

[Flash Gordon]

Too long for me to read this late at night but I like their slogan :music:

Free Willy :writing:

 

[Art Mann]

Fascinating article, Miss Riley,

In answer to your question I would argue that everybody should have the right to masturbate. Well, almost everybody. I can think of at least one person who probably deserves loss of testicles in addition to his life sentence. Maybe there's a whole lot more, but Bernardo will do for starters.

Stopping to ponder the question also makes me grateful I'm not an inmate.

I'll be very interested in learning what our friend HOF has to say on this subject.

I'm also interested in learning more about the female point of view:

Both of these incidents highlight a new factor in the correctional environment: the female prison guard. In many institutions, women are steadily replacing men because prisons prefer to hire guards without criminal records and with some education beyond high school—both of which favor female applicants. 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. The result is that male inmates are accorded less privacy in which to masturbate than female inmates, says Brenda Smith, the law professor. “Women are in these environments, and they can look into the cell. They come by and the guy is masturbating and all of a sudden [the guards think] it's about them. When in fact it isn't. Then those guys get written up, when they didn’t even know she was coming.”

Prisons must also protect female guards from the hostile work environment that ensues if inmate masturbation is not held in check. This was established in a case that reached the 9[SUP]th[/SUP]Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006 involving a female guard who was repeatedly exposed to exhibitionist masturbation. In 1998 and 1999, Officer Deanna Freitag was sometimes tasked with monitoring the exercise yard at Pelican Bay State Prison’s Secure Housing Unit, which holds many of California’s most violent criminals. Somehow it became an inmate tradition to openly jack off when she was in the control tower. Freitag started writing up the serial masturbators, but her superiors ignored her reports—they told her exposure to misbehavior was part of the job and that “it’s only sex.” Freitag filed a formal complaint with the state. Pelican Bay found a reason to fire her. The fight wound up in court.

The facts were not really in dispute: A state inspector general’s report showed that female officers at Pelican Bay were regularly exposed to exhibitionist masturbation, and that administrators knew about it and did little to prevent it. (Many prisons install semi-opaque, one-way glass on control towers so officers can see out but inmates can’t see in.) Several female Pelican Bay officers testified that the pattern of masturbation had undermined their authority. The court concluded “with little difficulty” that the state was liable for maintaining a hostile work environment.

What???? Did I read that correctly???

It's the government's fault that inmates choose to jerk off in the courtyard to piss off government employees?

But most female correctional officers do not define inmate exhibitionism as sexual harassment, according to prison research conducted by sociologist Dana M. Britton.

Ahhh, this makes more sense.

 

[OwenC]

Fascinating article, Miss Riley,

In answer to your question I would argue that everybody should have the right to masturbate. Well, almost everybody. I can think of at least one person who probably deserves loss of testicles in addition to his life sentence. Maybe there's a whole lot more, but Bernardo will do for starters.

Stopping to ponder the question also makes me grateful I'm not an inmate.

I'll be very interested in learning what our friend HOF has to say on this subject.

I'm also interested in learning more about the female point of view:

What???? Did I read that correctly???

It's the government's fault that inmates choose to jerk off in the courtyard to piss off government employees?


Ahhh, this makes more sense.

You are feeding the drama Queen.

Just in case you didn't know.

 

[LickingGravity]

One would have thought it would be in the prisons best interest to have the inmates well "wanked". You have to think it would keep them more docile.

 

[Jesus Quintana]

I think they should chain prisoners up, with their reach being 3 inches short of their penises while being forced to watch porn 24/7.

 

[Reverse]

Masturbating is a natural stress reliever. Last thing any guard should want is stressed out prisoners.

 

[peace]

or a smelly dirty butt during anal check

 

[JustRiley]

You are feeding the drama Queen.

Just in case you didn't know.

I posted the article so people would have something interesting to read, I don't get how you think this is some drama queen thing when I am not. the fact that people have opnions on the article are great which is a lot better then the usual topic dicussions around here

 

[a 1 player]

Yes they should.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

''In practice, inmates are seldom sanctioned, so long as they touch themselves discreetly. In Connecticut, masturbation is against the rules only when performed “in a lewd and public manner.”

This pretty much sums it up for me. if it's done in a lewd and public manner then it should be punished.

 

[a 1 player]

''In practice, inmates are seldom sanctioned, so long as they touch themselves discreetly. In Connecticut, masturbation is against the rules only when performed “in a lewd and public manner.”

This pretty much sums it up for me. if it's done in a lewd and public manner then it should be punished.

If it is done in public, it would probably fall under 'harassment' laws.