Colorado Inmates Forced to Read USA Today

Accuracy in Media ^ | March 7, 2010 | Don Irvine

[AIM Freeper]

A jail in Colorado has banned all newspapers for inmates except for USA Today over safety issues.

From Fox31.com

A county jail in Colorado doesn't allow inmates to read newspapers — except for USA Today.

The Garfield County Jail bans newspapers because the commander says they make inmates unsafe. The commander tells the Aspen Daily News that inmates can be targeted for violence if other inmates learn in the newspaper what others have been convicted of.

Jail commander Steve Hopple says that USA Today is the only paper allowed because it carries "well-rounded national news."

The newspaper ban has been in effect about a year, but jail officials just this week confirmed the ban to the Aspen newspaper.

In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prisons could ban newspapers and magazines.

I'm not sure how many inmates were reading the paper to begin with but by giving them only USA Today will be a sure fire recipe for putting them to sleep faster.

[oh8eleven]

USA Today is the only paper allowed because it carries "well-rounded national news."
Well rounded? It's as close to Pravda as you can get!

[Concho]

Sort of turning the jail into a school for how to be a left wing moonbat, isnt it?

[thefactor]

Do they put it on the floor outside every inmates cell in the morning?

[jazminerose]

Well, now they really have gone too far. Where is ACLU?

[Jack Wilson]

Safety issue - paper cuts?

[driftless2]

Nothing like a little Al Neuwirth-inspired leftist propaganda to make the inmates feel better. Neuwirth never saw a leftist idea that he didn’t like.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Ironic since USA Today posted a whole illustrated step by step instructional on how to build a truck bomb out of fertilizer and fuel oil, including how to use sheets of plywood to direct the blast. This was on page 2 a couple of days after the Oklahoma City bombing.

[AtlasStalled]

Wouldn’t it be a greater punishment to force them to read the New York Times or The Washington Post?

[bboop]

They should be reading the scratchings on the walls only. This is JAIL, not Mom’s.

[Lockbar]

This is cruel and unusual punishment!

[MEGoody]

I take it they also don't allow the inmates to view the news on TV.

Doesn't matter - the others will find out what a new inmate was encarcerated for anyway.

[Pavegunner72]

I understand some inmates operate illegal business deals using local paper using the “Wanted” ads as code, since all corresondance, visits, and phone calls can be monitored.

Could this be a smoke screen?

[RU88]

Speaking of USA Today, I was just kicked off the site for comments I made regarding Obamacare and the bravo sierra poll they put up that is being tauted on every morning news show saying the majority of Americans support it. Censorship is alive and well. It's too bad they won't have that option come November!