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Why did prison give inmates access to filthy trash?
By desmoinesregister.com- Rekha Basu
Published: 09/26/2014

I could hardly believe my eyes at first. Then revulsion gave way to outrage.

I was sitting in a Polk County courtroom watching a clip from a smut film. It was one the state of Iowa had casually shown to disturbed and mentally ill prison inmates, including convicted sex offenders. Not as part of treatment, but for their enjoyment, like on movie night at camp.

On Wednesday the clip from “Deranged” was shown to jurors as evidence in a prison employee’s case against the state. In it, a killer was scooping out a woman’s eye with a spoon, slicing open her scalp and removing the brain matter, blood gushing everywhere. Subsequent scenes showed a man groping a woman who was tied to a chair. He untied her but later chased her, beating her bloody, then hung her naked body upside down and skinned it.

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