21-year-old Michigan bank robber Kyle Richards is suing the state because Macomb County Jail won’t allow him to look at pornography, a restriction he’s calling a “cruel and unusual punishment.”
The prisoner drafted a five-page handwritten lawsuit in which he states that the lack of pornography has lead to a “poor standard of living” and “sexual and sensory deprivation.” The lawsuit continues by noting that the living conditions in the prison “have been used as a method of ‘psychological warfare’ against prisoners, in order to both destroy the morale of inmates and break the spirit of individuals.”
According to officials at the Michigan Department of Corrections, the state allows some pornography and the issue is restricted to the Macbomb prison system.
Even the ACLU won’t touch this case, but I have a tip for the prisoner who filed the suit, don’t rob banks and you can look at all the pornography you want. I expect this case to go absolutely nowhere seeing as porn is a privilege and not a right.
