AP:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Convicted sex offenders in Sweden are free to read pornography in their cells following a court ruling that has angered the prison service.
The Supreme Administrative Court in Stockholm last week ruled that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service had no right to deny a rape convict access to his porn magazines.
Prison officials had argued that reading porn would interfere with the man’s rehabilitation program. They also said the magazines posed a security problem for staff and other inmates because they could increase the risk of the man relapsing into criminal behavior.
But the court, whose ruling cannot be appealed, said the prison service failed to prove that the magazines could “jeopardize the security of the institution.”
Even without knowing anything about that infamous Scandinavian liberalism, this edict from a country whose geographical shape looks like a male organ isn’t that surprising.
Letting imprisoned sex offenders look at porn is like letting imprisoned armed robbers read gun magazines. I wonder if the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court would countenance that idea.
