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‘Cruel and unusual’: Inmate sues jail for denying him porn
By thespec.com - The Associated Press
Published: 07/05/2011

MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH. — A Michigan jail inmate says he’s being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he can’t have pornography.

In a handwritten lawsuit, 21-year-old Kyle Richards claims his civil rights are being violated at the Macomb County Jail.

Richards says denying his request for erotic material subjects him to a “poor standard of living” and “sexual and sensory deprivation.”

The Michigan Department of Corrections tells The Detroit News that prisons allow some pornographic material, though it’s banned at the jail.

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