Which state agency head said the following this week?
"We do not believe the Constitution grants an inmate the right to publicly gratify himself and assault female staff in the uniform color of his choice. We are bound and determined to protect our female staff from perverts who commit this sort of act, and we believe it is our duty to do anything possible to convince these perverts to reform their behavior."
OK, I know how easy it is to cheat in a world with Google. Yes, it was Jon Ozmint over at Corrections. You can read about it at this location, where it was published in the Charleston paper.
And for those of you still trying to figure out the headline, yes, it was another pop song allusion.
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The more I read about Joe Ozmint, the more I like him.
Why didn’t you refer to The State’s article on this? 🙂
Pink was the only color available?
Couldn’t Jon Ozmint make up a more believable lie?
I’ve never been in prison but I’ll bet that forcing an inmate to wear pink is similar to dumping chicken guts on him and putting him in an alligator petting zoo.
And, Ozmint knows it. He just wants the inmates to do his punishing for him.
Oh, come now, I just checked the statement Ozmint made. A criminal apparently can’t masturbate without chancing being outfitted in pink for 3 months. It’s not reasonable to expect such restraint, and quite probably not wise. And pink jumpsuits are the only way of identifying these persons? Really? If the purpose is to protect the women staffers (presumably by identifying these miscreants from a distance) are they automatically ‘healed’ after 3 months? What is the rationale for 3 months, unless this is purely for punishment. Come on Ozmint, if you must be sadistic, please don’t be a liar and a hypocrite as well.
Ozmint did the right thing, he must stay in controld of the prison at all times.
See what a little relaxing of the ruled did last week at Bishopville.
Putting a prisoner in a pink jumpsuit and trusting fellow inmates to take care of the punishment isn’t “staying in control.” In fact, it’s ceding control to the most vicious of the inmates.
Ready to Hurl: Would you want your daughter/sister to be subjected to male inmates masturbating in front of them? What would your response be if you found out… “oh shucky geez”??? Putting inmates in pink is one way to identify them as well as make them think twice about doing this type of activity in front of prison employees. These people are “prisoners”… they gave up all rights to fashion when they entered the front gate. So go complain to your ACLU rep.
Bill C.
First of all, I suspect that the lady guards are a little too tough to faint at the sight of a prisoner masturbating. Secondly, Ozmint’s statement didn’t limit this punishment to those who masturbated in front of a woman guard; it stated anyone caught masturbating would be subject to the fuschia jumpsuit. Prisons give one little privacy. Thirdly, using the other prisoners to ‘punish’ these men means that the authority has no control over the punishment, and can make no guarantee that it won’t be “cruel and unusual.” Even (and particularly) our criminals have the right to be free of that. This is not only unethical, but probably illegal.
The things we do discuss on here. First rape-necessitated abortion, now prisoners doing themselves, two things it’s really easy not to think about.
Prisoners doing each other in the governor’s mansion way back when was a lot more fun.
Good point, Weldon.
Karen, these guys are in “prison”, they don’t have the personal masturbation freedoms of those on the outside. Besides, there are things called blankets that the prisoners can crawl under to do what they need to do… I suspect the ones who would be wearing pink are the ones who stand in front of the door and taunting the guards. If these boys can find a hiding place to rape each other in, I’m sure they can find places to “relieve” the back pressure.
So what? So what if the prisoner is standing “in front of the door and taunting the guards”?
If you think that this behavior– as distasteful and offensive as it is– is worth punishment then I suggest a consequence that the prison administers. Solitary confinement for a while, for instance. Loss of certain privileges. Or, an instantaneous hosing down with pepper spray.
In an environment where the administration is challenged to prevent rape, drug abuse and murder by organized criminal gangs, I suggest that picking your battles is as important as winning them.
Becoming allies with the thugs by letting them do the punishing isn’t a solution– it’s an admission of powerlessness.
Bald-faced lying and deception about your policies– while popularized by Lenin, Stalin and GW Bush– isn’t acceptable from a prison bureaucrat.
“Besides, there are things called blankets that the prisoners can crawl under to do what they need to do… ”
Perhaps, but it would be hard to use paper to keep the mess under control while under a blanket.
The biggest mistake is to have female guards in male prisons. Although I am opposed to job discrimination, there are certain unusual situations where it is unreasonable to employ women, and other situations where it is unreasonable to employ men. Let us use some common sense and take gender into consideration in those unusual situations where we should.
Freebasing adderall.
Adderall. Side effects of adderall.