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California may distribute condoms to prison inmates; bill is advancing in state legislature
Washington Times ^ | 5-14-14 | Tom Howell Jr.

Posted on 05/14/2014 8:05:21 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

California lawmakers are considering a measure that would allow the state to distribute condoms to prison inmates, an attempt to cut down on sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, although sex acts between inmates would remain unlawful. Reuters reports the bill is advancing in the Senate — it already passed the state Assembly — and would direct state officials to set up a five-year plan to hand out condoms throughout the state’s prison system. “We are not only advocating for the improved health of prisoners,” the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta, said. “But we are also protecting communities across the state that could potentially be harmed by communicable diseases when former prisoners relocate to neighborhoods upon re-entry.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: asylum; democrats; inmates
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA; Responsibility2nd; TurboZamboni

Run the prisons as they do in Japan (14 hours of work or other scheduled activities) and you’ll have zero prison rapes as they do in Japan.


21 posted on 05/14/2014 8:33:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Who says prison authorities have the obligation to protect every inmate?”

18 U.S. Code § 4042 - Duties of Bureau of Prisons

(a) In General.— The Bureau of Prisons, under the direction of the Attorney General, shall—

(3) provide for the protection, instruction, and discipline of all persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States;


22 posted on 05/14/2014 8:33:18 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: TurboZamboni

Why not give them guns too...

murder remains unlawful also...


23 posted on 05/14/2014 8:33:23 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: TurboZamboni
although sex acts between inmates would remain unlawful

So the thought is that when an inmate gets gang-raped, the rapists will stop to put on a condom first to avoid spreading STDs??

24 posted on 05/14/2014 8:34:42 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

although sex acts between inmates would remain unlawful...?
Yeah...that stops them!


25 posted on 05/14/2014 8:43:25 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: TurboZamboni

A peek at the future:

This is a good start. Next should be drugs. Although drug use is illegal in our prison system it is important that if inmates are going to use drugs then we need to insure the safety of these drugs. Overdoses and dirty needles can kill and we cannot avoid our responsibility for the safe keeping of those that we have incarcerated.

I plan to introduce legislation ...


26 posted on 05/14/2014 8:49:17 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Fire the guards running things now and privatize the system.


27 posted on 05/14/2014 8:50:06 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

Obama The Brave - Standing up against The War On Faggots


28 posted on 05/14/2014 8:51:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: TurboZamboni; Vigilanteman
It didn't take Freepers long to come up with a couple of ideas for improvement.

We're talking about homosexual rape here folks. There is no way it should be tolerated.

29 posted on 05/14/2014 8:54:16 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Agreed. Conviction for a criminal offense should not include carte blanche for other criminals to behave like criminal animals and pass on a potentially fatal STD.

Keep them busy and they have little time or energy left to even think about sex.

How do you think the Shakers came up with their awesome designs for furniture or buildings with roofs which lasted more than a century after they were first installed?

A good deal of the piecework assembly jobs which we now import from China could be farmed out to the prisons.

30 posted on 05/14/2014 9:08:00 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: TurboZamboni

So, they are going to encourage prison rape by eliminating the fear of catching AIDS?


31 posted on 05/14/2014 9:19:36 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: InterceptPoint

Why not? handing out ‘free’ gubmint birth control at schools has worked so well.
Maybe Planned Prisonhood can start a prison ‘fellowship’. Make Barney Frank the CEO and Larry Craig the warden.


32 posted on 05/14/2014 9:24:06 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

Protecting communities across the state that could potentially be harmed by communicable diseases.
So illegals get them too?.


33 posted on 05/14/2014 9:48:34 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Yep.
After all, they’re probably half the prison population in California.


34 posted on 05/14/2014 9:53:54 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

True whites are at 49% now.


35 posted on 05/14/2014 9:59:36 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rjsimmon

The better to smuggle drugs with.


36 posted on 05/14/2014 11:21:39 AM PDT by DPMD
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