ACLU Fights For Prisoners To Have Porn

Posted on July 13, 2006

Two inmates are suing the Indiana Department of Correction to overturn a new policy that bars magazines and other printed materials that depict nudity or sexual conduct.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis seeks class-action status on behalf of more than 20,000 state prisoners and challenges a policy that went into effect July 1 barring adult magazines such as Playboy and Hustler and the motorcycle magazine Easyriders. The policy could prohibit sexually explicit letters and general circulation publications such as National Geographic magazine and daily newspapers, according to the complaint, which said the new rule violates the plaintiffs’ civil rights.

“The policy is written so broadly that it includes within its prohibitions such things as personal letters between prisoners and loved ones and much of the world’s great literature and art,” said the complaint, which was prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana.

Wow! They are actually treating these prisoners like they are criminals or something!

Do these prisoners think they are in a hotel with room service? Prison is for punishment. You violate other people’s rights and you get some taken away from you. Great literature and art? C’mon ACLU, you can do better than that.