Black and white and red all over
The Cache County Jail has banned newspapers, including the local Herald Journal, from its inmates, fearing that reading crime articles could lead to security problems. Sheriff's Capt. Kim Cheshire explains:We stopped taking The Herald Journal because it poses a safety problem for our inmates and staff here. If the paper prints an article about a child sex abuse criminal, other inmates will know what that inmate is in here for.To gloss over the ugly details, if other inmates read that a cellmate is convicted of something heinous, say child molestation, it might be disrupt their friendship and lead to social friction.
So, to keep things peaceful in the ol' gray bar hotel, the Herald Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune and other scandal sheets are kept out of inmates hands.
Interestingly, the inmates still have full access to the Deseret News — presumably because it has a tranquilizing, some would say soporific, effect on readers.
The DNews alone joins Time, Better Homes and Gardens and 11 of the 12 monthly editions of Sports Illustrated (is that banned 12th issue the swim-suit edition?) in the jail library.
Inmates, by the way, are looking forward to next Wednesday's DNews when Cookie Editor Valerie Phillips will reprise her recipe for German chocolate hacksaw cake.
2 Comments:
you do realize Sports Illustrated is a weekly magazine, don't you?
Moron
Perfect! Especially since yesterday marked the beginning of national "Banned Books Week."
Smells like a First Amendment-based lawsuit.
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