Uhh, here’s one from the so strange it must be true file. It seems as though prison inmates in the Clayton County Correctional Institution (it’s in Georgia) haven’t seen Monday Night Football since it made the jump from over-the-air ABC broadcast to ESPN. Hard to feel sorry for these guys, but apparently someone, including the prison’s warden, does.
His plan is to install Direct TV in the prison to up the number of channels the inmates can watch from its current two to God knows how many channels (it all depends on the subscription package remember).
Now, of course right off the bat most people are going to oppose this. Why should you have better TV in prison than you get at home. But an interesting editorial in the Atlanta Journal Constitution takes a different and interesting approach. The warden claims the satellite system would be a more effective management tool, this helping out the prison guards who already have an impossibly hard job. Interesting food for thought. I still couldn’t support the idea, but at least it’s nice to see another well-reasoned position on it. What do you think?
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