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slayers_creek_oth:
This may have already been posted so sorry if it has...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/08/prison.brokeback.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest

BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- A Massachusetts correctional officer is being disciplined for showing the gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain" to inmates at the state's largest prison because his boss determined that the film includes content inappropriate for a prison setting.

Massachusetts Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said Saturday that the action was not related to the critically acclaimed film's plot involving a gay love affair.

"It was not the subject matter. It was the graphic nature of sexually explicit scenes," Wiffin said.

She said the officer, whom she declined to identify, failed to follow prison guidelines that require staff who schedule films to review them in advance for excessive violence, nudity or sex, as well as scenes involving assaults on correctional staff.

The officer showed the film Thursday afternoon, two days after its American release on DVD, to inmates at a prison in Norfolk, Massachusetts, about 25 miles southwest of Boston.

Wiffin declined to discuss his punishment.

Based on Annie Proulx's short story, "Brokeback Mountain" is about two men who meet and fall in love while wrangling sheep in Wyoming in 1963. It won raves from critics and garnered three Oscars last month, including one for director Ang Lee.

Nicole:
She said the officer, whom she declined to identify, failed to follow prison guidelines that require staff who schedule films to review them in advance for excessive violence, nudity or sex, as well as scenes involving assaults on correctional staff.

Lol - that makes me laugh, imagining prison staff removing any films that show inmates abusing the staff.  I guess Natural Born Killers doesn't get shown in a lot of prisons, lol.

I can't imagine that the sex in the movie was any more graphic than other movies that they show.  If it was b/w a man and woman nobody would have blinked an eye.   ::)

vkm91941:
These are murderers, rapists, pediophiles, theives and villians of every description some of whom sodomise other prisoners on a regular basis and the "Officials" think Brokeback Mountain is not "appropriate" for their viewing....SHeesh...what do they show these guys Disney Films, Harry Potter, Wallace and Gromit. Is that supposed to part of the rehabilitation process.  They allow playboy magazines, pin-ups and other such "contraban" to exist.  The Stupidity of some people in authority astounds me.

henrypie:
Hypocrisy as Usual.

Very, very frustrating.

TheStudDuck:

--- Quote from: vkm91941 on April 09, 2006, 12:35:10 am ---SHeesh...what do they show these guys Disney Films, Harry Potter, Wallace and Gromit. Is that supposed to part of the rehabilitation process.

--- End quote ---

Hahahahaha... that makes me think of that scene from Addams Family Values where Wednesday and Pugsley (and that other kid) are locked in that cabin in the woods and forced to watch movies like Bambi and The Sound of Music as their punishment!

Yes, it doesn't make any sense... seeing as how the sex is in no way graphic at all.

I know this goes against my bleeding-heart liberal self, but they should have denied it on the grounds that those men are being punished and that they don't deserve to see the greatest film ever made in the history of cinema!

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