Why Is This A Good Idea? California To Intall Condom Machines In A State Prison

I must be missing something here.
California, ever the leader in innovative ideas, has decided that installing condom machines in their prisons is the right thing to do:

VACAVILLE, Calif. — A controversial new pilot program providing free condoms for prison inmates is in its final planning stages.
The Solano State Prison is installing 10 condom distribution machines that will be stocked with 1,200 condoms a week.
The hope is that the condoms will limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among inmates.
“We know risk behavior is being reduced,” said Mary Sylla of the Center for Health Justice. “We will eventually be reducing HIV infections by this measure.”

We all know how socially responsible and concerned our prison inmates are about the welfare and health of their sexual partners when they, er, persuade them to participate in intimate shower contact, don’t we?
Aside from that, I wonder if it occurred to anyone that this sort of gives the nod to what is already illegal behavior. Would an inmate who was caught engaging in – presumably consensual – sex now be able to argue that, hey, they made the condoms available so it must be all right, right?
Is there something in the water out there that makes people lose all sense of perspective? Having sex in prison is against the law. Hey! Here’s a novel idea: If you want to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in your prisons, how about controlling the behavior of your inmates?
That would probably work better than providing them the tools with which to play house, don’t you think?
Just a thought.

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  • http://Array dragon poker

    IF assfucking in a prison shower is illegal, only criminals will assfuck in a prison shower. Oh, they are already criminals. I hope the same machine dispenses enema’s. Oh yea, they are already in the shower anyway, might as well save the $$ and just wash it all down the drain.
    Sorry, I know its a distasteful posting, but the topic is a bit weird.

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

    What about this instead; tell inmates “you rape, we castrate. Any questions?”

    OK, the ACLU would probably have an 8th Amendment hissy fit, but are we to seriously argue that we’re taking prison rape seriously? Give some prison rapists a taxpayer funded pair of “neuticals”, and let’s see if behavior cleans up.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Gents,

    Please don’t get me wrong. I have been characterized by some as homophobic, which is only inaccurate insofar as I am not afraid of them as much as I am disgusted by them.

    That being said, I could not care less about the health, safety and welfare of inmates who willingly engage in the Unnatural Act of buggery. However, I do care about minimizing the spread to the rest of the general population once the inmates are released.

    And, given Hollywoods’ glorification of the thug culture, the leap to the mainstream population just not be all that far. Take a gander at Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and the like and you will see our young kids have swallowed Hollywoods’ hype.

    My guess is that acts which might start in Da Big House might have effects in those coming back from a Saturday night at a Hip Hop club.

    If inmates could just keep the cooties hermetically sealed within their own populations, I’d say, have at it boys, but I suspect these things have a way of leaking into the general population.

    I could be wrong and would welcome authority showing that my suspicions are unfounded.

  • LoadTheMule

    Once again we’ve sunk to the they’re gonna do it anyway, so it’s our responsibility to make it as safe as possible defense of this poppycock. Personally, I do hope prisoners use condoms when they commit the illegal act. Just as I hope drive-by shooters aim carefully and not hit any innocent bystanders when they commit the illegal act. Just as I hope the burglar doesn’t take a dump on my couch before exiting the house with my valuables when he/she/it commits the illegal act. But I don’t think it’s incumbent on the State to supply gang-bangers with scopes or burglars with toilet paper.

    And Move_Zig’s comment nothwithstanding, the State tacitly promoting at worst (and accepting at the least) illegal sex in prisons is ridiculous.

    What’s next–we know they’re gonna make shivs so let’s just give ‘em knives?

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

    Are we to argue, though, that the prison rapist is going to be considerate in a moment of brutality (say what?) and buy a condom for his capital crime?

  • Pilgrim

    Still, if I were an attorney representing an inmate charged with sexual activity I’d have the words “implied consent” on the part of the state all over my defense – and my lawsuit.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Oddly enough, my answer is yes, it is a good idea.

    I don’t have time to pull the articles but a couple, somewhat-related problems are affecting the spread of AIDS/HIV, particularly in the Black community.

    First, prison rape and even consensual homosexual unprotected anal sex are major vectors of AIDS/HIV and other diseases in the prison system. This disproportionately affects the Black community since such a high proportion of the Black male population have at one time or another, been in prison.

    Upon their release, they re-enter the civilian community and pass their infections onto populations such as Black females (whom at least at one point were the fastest-growing cases of AIDs) and others, as well as sharing needles, etc…

    Thus, the prison-types have become a vector of this deadly virus into the non-prison population.

    The second aspect is less prison related, insofar it deals with the Black male population, who aren’t necessarily in prison, ex-cons, or on their way. That is the problem of the Down-low, or closeted homosexual black male, who while acting as a straight male in the open, still engages in unprotected receptive buttsex on the down-low (hush hush)

    Still, a sizeable proportion of this population has a correctional background and thus, once again, if you can’t stop them from having buttsex and introducing their disease back into the general population, then perhaps you can run interference in the form of condoms.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    This just in…

    More than 56,000 in U.S. infected with AIDS each year

    “The analysis shows that new infections peaked in the mid-1980s at approximately 130,000 infections per year and reached a low of about 50,000 in the early 1990s,” it said.

    Dr. Kevin Fenton, who heads the CDC’s AIDS branch, said 15,000 to 18,000 Americans die every year of AIDS.

    “The data really confirm that there is a severe impact of this epidemic among gay and bisexual men in the United States … as well as black men and women,” Fenton said in a telephone interview.

    The numbers, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, confirm that black Americans are seven times more likely to be infected than whites.

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