Go to prison, have safe sex
here we go again, another dumbshit liberal proposing another waste of taxpayer money.
Its against prison rules and some laws to have sex with another inmate while in prison, but here is another moronic liberal wasting time and taxpayer money so prisoners can butt fuck each other safely.
With all the ills that california has instead of spending time trying to solve them, the LIBERALS once again show how stupid they are.
I think if you cannot protect yourself in prison, do not commit crimes and yoy will not have to go there.
Besides since MOST sex in prison is RAPE I can just see a rapist taking the time to slip a condom on before he rapes another prisoner, is it any wonder the democrats have fallen to such lows with morons like this representing the democrats?
the article below was taken from the sacramento bee. a LIBERAL newspaper.
Bill would OK condoms in prisons
An assemblyman's plan to stem disease sends the wrong message, critics say.
By Jim Sanders -- Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 2:15 am PST Saturday, February 26, 2005
California is considering allowing prison inmates to receive condoms for sex acts they can't legally commit.
Assemblyman Paul Koretz says the state has had its head in the sand too long: Forbidden or not, prison sex is a fact of life, he said.
"If you can't stop it from happening, you try to stop disease from spreading," said Koretz, a West Hollywood Democrat.
Koretz has touched off a verbal firestorm by proposing legislation to allow distribution of condoms and "dental dams" - used in oral sex - to the state's 162,000 male and female inmates.
Critics contend passage of AB 1677 would wrongly send the message that prison sex is permissible, and some fear that inmates would fill condoms with urine or feces to attack guards.
"It's obscene, disgusting and absurd," said Benjamin Lopez of the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative, faith-based group that lobbies on social and family issues.
"This is the same mentality we're telling teens: Don't have sex, but if you do, here's a condom," Lopez said. "It hasn't worked for teens. ... What makes Paul Koretz think it's going to curb disease in prisons?"
Added Senate Republican leader Dick Ackerman of Irvine: "If you really want to stop an activity, you don't make it easier for people to do it."
Under AB 1677, the state would not sanction prison sex but would allow nonprofit or public health groups to distribute condoms, dental dams or other sex-related protective devices. Inmates could not be punished simply for possessing such items. The Department of Corrections would be required to develop a plan for disposing of used devices that "protects the anonymity of inmates and the health of correctional officers."
For years, two California counties, Los Angeles and San Francisco, have allowed jail inmates to receive condoms. Officials say the policy has served their communities well.
"We're not promoting sex; we're promoting health," said Deputy Randy Bell of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which allows only homosexual inmates to receive condoms distributed by a local nonprofit organization. In Los Angeles County, gay men are housed in a separate unit.
Vermont and Mississippi also allow condom distribution in prisons, as does Canada, most of Western Europe and parts of Latin America, Koretz said.
The California Department of Corrections does not keep statistics on the number of inmates caught or punished for homosexual acts.
Attorney Steve Fama of the Prison Law Office, which provides legal advice to inmates, said prison sex is difficult to quantify.
"It's neither documented nor readily discussed, if for no other reason than to admit it is to confess to a crime," he said.
Koretz said the federal government has estimated that up to 30 percent of federal inmates engage in homosexual activity.
In California prisons, sex acts can occur in cells or in communal areas such as recreation yards, officials said.
"Any time you get a group of men together for a long period of time, things like that will happen," said Assemblywoman Betty Karnette, D-Long Beach. "Abstinence doesn't work. It didn't work in David and Goliath's time. And it doesn't work now."
Health risks are compounded by the fact that an inordinately high number of inmates enter the prison system with HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases, Koretz said.
"I don't disagree that if they could find a way to enforce the (prison sex ban), that would be better," Koretz said. "But in the meantime, let's not turn a blind eye to this."
Philip Curtis of AIDS Project Los Angeles applauded AB 1677.
"We think it makes a lot of sense," he said. "It's good, practical public health. It's no big secret that there has been sex in prisons for as long as there have been prisoners."
Assemblyman Mark Leno, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, said he will take no position on AB 1677 pending public hearings.
But Leno said condom distribution to inmates potentially could benefit entire communities, not just prisons, by reducing the risk that people will contract sexually transmitted diseases while in custody and spread them once they are released.
California's prison system has taken no position on AB 1677 and typically does not do so with pending legislation, said spokeswoman Terry Thornton.
But prison officials have concerns ranging from health risks posed by used condoms to the possibility that they could be used to transfer drugs, she said.
Lance Corcoran, a spokesman for state prison guards, blasted the bill as a "horrible idea." Prisoners could fill condoms with toilet waste to attack guards, he said.
"Certainly, sex occurs in prisons," said Corcoran, of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. "However, it's something we investigate fervently and try to prevent the best we can."
Corcoran said AB 1677 "shows a bit of naivete" in the coddling of criminals.
"What message are we sending?" he asked. "Next we'll be providing syringes to inmates, I guess."