Jail bars ‘brokeback’ viewing: Warden turns movie off, didn’t want cons turned on

The Boston Herald ^ | 04/08/2006 | Michele McPhee and Emma Ratliff

[Panerai]

A by-the-book warden pulled the plug during a jailhouse showing of the controversial gay-cowboy movie “Brokeback Mountain” yesterday, fearing the film’s steamy scenes violated the facility’s no-movie-sex policy.

Faster than you could say “I wish I knew how to quit you,” inmates at MCI-Norfolk found their afternoon matinee ended just 10 minutes before the Academy Award-winning movie’s ending.

The cons were assembled in the gym yesterday afternoon to watch the film about a love affair between two gay cowboys and their trysts on an isolated mountainside - that is, until a prison official shut it off.

However, the prisoners did get to hear the line uttered by the cowboys’ boss, “You boys sure found a way to make the time pass,” when he happened upon the sheepherders after a heated tumble in the grass, which he likened to leaving “the dogs babysittin’ the sheep while you stem the rose.”

Trying to prevent prisoners from making “the time pass” by engaging in cellblock sex is one of the most serious problems correction officers face, said Ken Ferullo, vice president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union.

“We don’t need to foster that kind of atmosphere in there. It already exists. These guys are alone together, some of them forever,” Ferullo said. “We’re already running ‘Brokeback prison.’ ”

[Mr Ramsbotham]

“We don’t need to foster that kind of atmosphere in there. It already exists. These guys are alone together, some of them forever,” Ferullo said. “We’re already running ‘Brokeback prison.’ ”

I thought that was part of the standard sentence.

[Always Right]

“We don’t need to foster that kind of atmosphere in there. It already exists. These guys are alone together, some of them forever,” Ferullo said. “We’re already running ‘Brokeback prison.’ ”

Obviously born that way....

[cripplecreek]

I've heard some pretty nasty stories about Brokeback liver night in the prison kitchen.

[weegee]

BUMP

Maybe that'll be Hollyweird's next Oscar winner.

Two men from the ghetto are unjustly sentenced to death for separate crimes they did not commit (because everyone on death row is innocent), On death row they meet and discover the love that won't shut up. Will they be able to come to terms with their new identities before one is released and the other is wrongly executed?

The left would make it mandatory to see this film...

[NonValueAdded]

Holy soap-on-a-rope, Batman, what are they doing in there?

[csvset]

No pudding for you!

[Chode]

they don't call it HardTime for nothing...

[JRios1968]

It's already been made

[raccoonradio]

one of the inmates:


# Convicted killer Michelle Lynne Kosilek, whose name was Bob when he strangled his wife Cheryl to death in 1990. Kosilek successfully sued to get a sex-change operation and takes taxpayer-funded female hormones. The inmate is now demanding a nose job and laser hair removal.