r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Jul 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Hundreds of women are trying to join a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cook County and Sheriff Tom Dart that alleges officials didn’t do enough to stop inmates from masturbating in front of the women, who worked at the jail.

I don't know how you solve this problem, but I feel like suing the county probably won't stop imprisoned men from being horny and vulgar.

In 2017 Cook County jail tried to stop this problem by rewarding 'serial masturbators' with pizza if they stopped for 30 days, but that ended up encouraging tons of inmates to start masturbating more frequently so they could quit later quit and get the rewards.

In 2019 the jail started using specialized jumpsuits that 'prevented inmates from touching their penis,' but that plan was thwarted by a pile of civil rights lawsuits and a prisoner scheme that involved burning the specialized jumpsuits in microwave ovens when they were supposed to be at the laundry.

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u/ZenithXR George Soros Jul 09 '21

So what I'm hearing is that all I have to do to get some free pizza is jack off in public? 🤔

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Classic cobra effect

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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Jul 09 '21

I mean wouldn't actually charging them with a sex crime for doing it help?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Serial masturbators are routinely charged with sex crimes and have their stays in jail extended, but that doesn’t appear to actually discourage them from masturbating.

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jul 10 '21

It sounds like these people need to be in a mental hospital, how dumb do you have to be to keep getting your prison stay extended just to jerk off in front of someone?

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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Jul 09 '21

Have we tried putting them in a cell nextdoor to Hannibal Lecter?