Prison official punished over 'Brokeback' screening

[truthpusher]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-04-08T185105Z_01_N08375877_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-BROKEBACK.xml&rpc=22

Prison official punished over 'Brokeback' screening
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Sat Apr 8, 2006 2:51 PM ET
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BOSTON (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.

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The officer showed the film on 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.

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[HuffleClaw]

1. "It was not the subject matter..." suuuuuuuure it wasn't

what a crock.

[xchrom]

2. i must have missed the sexually explicit scenes.

[leQ]

5. there was the butt scene at the river, and then of course, all that male-

male kissing....

i just saw the movie the other day, and i'm still crying over it. the memories of my time in wyoming came back in full force watching that movie. one of the very few movies i'll see twice.

if you haven't seen it yet, you're missing out on one helluva movie.

[complain jane]

7. Me too.

One of those movies that stays with you for a while after you watch it. It was really a beautiful film.

[BiggJawn]

3. Did they get to see "Shawshank Redemption"?

2 cowboys in love=bad, prisoner raped in the laundry=OK.

[Orsino]

4. I get it.

We want to see prisoners raped regularly as part of their punishment. Can't let them fall in love, though.

Rape, good. Love, bad.

[CarpeDiebold]

6. Prisoners frown upon that sort of thing

Ya know, gay sex.

:wtf: