10/5/2023 0 Comments Saltpeter in jail![]() ![]() That’s just stupid.Ī spokesman for the prison union complains that some prisoners masturbate in their cells as a means of expressing a sense of power. What’s more, they want folks convicted of this offense to be required to register as a sex offender. The Connecticut Department of Corrections wants state lawmakers to create a new Class D felony making it punishable by up to five more years in the slammer for an inmate to masturbate in the presence of a prison official. Is it any wonder those living in our penal colonies strike back with such tools as they have? It’s almost as though there is this great rush of resentment against the incarcerated: we the law-abiding obey the rules at such great cost to the gratification of our instincts you prisoners must pay for mocking us with your lack of restraint. We must punish, punish, punish a transgression of the law punishment cannot be harsh enough, or savage enough. The law-and-order crowd thinks this is a fitting response to the commission of a crime. He is stripped of almost all the power he possesses. ![]() Your control over the man is almost absolute. Do all this to the man and call him an inmate. Restrict his access to family, reading material, and all the signals that might reach him from the external world. Limit the times he may leave his cell to exercise in another pen. Require him to live with others not his choosing.
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