Masturbation inside jail is illegal

[pioneer]

source: abajournal.com

A Florida inmate convicted this week of masturbating while alone in his jail cell is reportedly only one of eight targetsâ€"along with state taxpayersâ€"of what a Miami Herald columnist describes as "a spectacular case of selective prosecution."

Given the likely prevalence of such commonplace behavior in state prisons (not to mention boarding schools, seminaries and military barracks), criminally charging any Broward County inmate with masturbation represents a major waste of prosecution dollars, writes Fred Grimm in the Miami Herald ("Justice went blind in this jailhouse case").

However, in addition to the 20-year-old inmate convicted this week, three other inmates charged in similar cases have accepted pleas and three still await trial (one case was dismissed). All were charged by the same female deputy, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

Grimm also questions whether the cure is worse than the disease. Prospective jurors were publicly questioned about their own masturbation habits, as noted in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, before Terry Lee Alexanderâ€"who was already facing a 10-year robbery sentenceâ€"was convicted of indecent exposure Tuesday and sentenced to 60 days, as reported by the Herald.

Plus, during Alexander's trial, prosecutor Cynthia Lauriston and the female deputy who complained, after observing him on a monitor as he was alone in his cell, "managed to describe Alexander's offense in startling detail, eight times, once with Lauriston approximating the action with arm motions," Grimm notes.

''It was very vulgar. Very indecent,'' the deputy testified, describing the new crime of which Alexander has now been convicted, the column concludes. "But she could have been characterizing the prosecution, the trial, the verdict and the obscene, indecent, vulgar, lascivious, downright stupid waste of time and money."

[junayag]

If the act of masturbation was done with malice in front of a person, then I believe it would be illegal ( not a masturbation done discreetly but caught in a cctv camera ); for it is tantamount to sexual harassment?

[junayag]

If the act of masturbation was done with malice in front of an individual, then I believe it is illegal ( not with a masturbation done discreetly but caught with a cctv camera ); for this is tantamount to sexual harrassment ( a form of seduction in exchange of favor if consummated ).

[slackware]

Masturbation is illegal inside the jail but sodomy is legal! heheheheheh!

[Melrose]

kaluoy pod. he was just practicing a healthy exercise.

[udtohan]

korek, ban-alam. sodomy is legal in jail hehehe

sa tagbilaran, gilain ang mga bading nga napriso kay nasira ang mga laki.

[MikeLigalig.com]

weird America, indeed.

[hubag bohol]

kaluoy pod. he was just practicing a healthy exercise.

He he, recommended by a doctor bitaw ni...

[MikeLigalig.com]

dili diay angay nga mabilanggo si botoy ani.

[hubag bohol]

Grimm also questions whether the cure is worse than the disease. Prospective jurors were publicly questioned about their own masturbation habits, as noted in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, before Terry Lee Alexanderâ€"who was already facing a 10-year robbery sentenceâ€"was convicted of indecent exposure Tuesday and sentenced to 60 days, as reported by the Herald.

If the act of masturbation was done with malice in front of a person, then I believe it would be illegal ( not a masturbation done discreetly but caught in a cctv camera ); for it is tantamount to sexual harassment?

Hmm, unsa pud kaha kon ang indecent exposure gibuhat sulod sa ayroplano?

[hubag bohol]

dili diay angay nga mabilanggo si botoy ani.

Ang recommending doctor maoy angay prisohon...

[MikeLigalig.com]

Hmm, unsa pud kaha kon ang indecent exposure gibuhat sulod sa ayroplano?

mao naman kono niy uso karon.

[hubag bohol]

mao naman kono niy uso karon.

Hmm, tungod kay sikat man gud ang nagpasiugda...

[islander]

labad gyod tuod kasoha.  wa man diay buhata personally in front of the female deputy, nganong himoon man niyang issue nga nakasuwerte man lang siya nga naniid sa cctv monitor?  kun nalibang diay intawon ang inmate unya iyang na-monitor, would it also constitute indecent exposure?

[hubag bohol]

labad gyod tuod kasoha.  wa man diay buhata personally in front of the female deputy, nganong himoon man niyang issue nga nakasuwerte man lang siya nga naniid sa cctv monitor?  kun nalibang diay intawon ang inmate unya iyang na-monitor, would it also constitute indecent exposure?

Hmm, basin nasayod ang female deputy nga siya ang gipahinungdan?

[MikeLigalig.com]

very inconsiderate legal system. mag-jingle man gani nang wala mapriso, ang napriso pay dili?

[hubag bohol]

Waste of people's money pa jud...