In the next five years California is planning on providing condom machines in prisons now
they're doing this because whether they like to believe it or not or whether you like to
believe it or not sex happens in prisons all the time and there is a huge issue with the
spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV and hepatitis C so as I mentioned within
the next five years California must started distributing in around 3 dozen state prisons
and apparently California is not the only state that does this in fact this specifically
started in San Francisco which of course is in California San Francisco started dispensing
condoms to inmates in the eighties in a bid to combat the AIDS epidemic at the time now
there are more than a dozen dispensers in the city's jails which distribute around 2,000
condoms each month damn so they also do this in New York and Washington D.C. and they've
been doing it since the early 90's with good reason to do it I mean you know the rate of
sexually transmitted infections and diseases is higher among inmate in the general population
now they're could be a couple of different for that guys who wind up in prison are usually
not the most careful people in the world right and so there are a couple of factors at play
here and the reason they started doing it in these big cities in the 90's and even back
in the 80's is because they thought alright we don't want AIDS or different diseases running
rampant in the prison population and whether we think it's wrong or not they're clearly
having sex in here they're having sex and of course in some cases it is consensual but
I think a bigger issue that I think really goes underreported and doesn't have any solutions
as far as I'm concerned so far as rape in prison right I mean when you consider the
number of men who get raped in prison and the number of men who get raped in our military
we have a high number of male rape in the country right and it just doesn't go addressed
and I think part of the reason why is when it comes to the military people are too embarrassed
to talk about when it comes to our prisons there's this mentality of oh well they're
prisoners we don't care about them they're throw-aways they deserve it you know there
is that mentality yeah it's a matter of priorities you know I my whole life I've been confused
as to why why why is it acceptable to have rape in prison well if you go to prison obviously
you're going to get raped like why is that obviously why are there ironically no laws
in prison right and the reason is cause they don't care just like Ana said these are the
throw-aways of society in their minds so they think if you wind up in prison then sad day
for you we're going to let them do whatever the hell they want to you yeah right and to
me that's always been insane insane so now look my guess is the condoms aren't going
to work in the case of rape a guy raping you isn't that concerned about your well being
right right so it's not like oh shoot man I forgot to get the condom from the condom
dispenser before I raped you and by the way the scale of the problem is enormous we've
read articles that say that there are more men raped in the country than women when you
factor in prison rape yeah right that's a mind blowing stat right so but there are also
there is also a lot of consensual sex in prison that's just a reality as well and they might
use condom dispensers and also it depends on the jurisdiction but there's also conjugal
visits some allow it some don't allow it now this would allow it all over California and
to me it's a no brainer like some people are like oh the rules say they're not supposed
to have so why help them do it right but you're not helping them do it you're helping them
keep safe if they're going to do it anyway exactly exactly I think that this is a no
brainer and in in cities where they've already you know started this policy they have seen
a decrease in the number of sexually transmitted diseases so it is working and I think it's
common sense so it's it�s good to kind of put your own bias aside and go in the way
of logic and by the way if you want to stop sex in prison you don't take away condoms
you tell your guards hey don't let them rape one another anymore yeah boom problem solved
I mean it won't take care of the entire problem but it'll take care of a giant part of the
problem cause obviously the guards don't give a fuck yeah I don't know why it's acceptable
man it's just it's sick I mean we don't we we treat all prisoners as if they're all violent
offenders that have no point in being in society ever again a lot of them are also non-violent
offenders you know Robert Downey Jr. once had that quote about his time in prison you
remember of course he was addicted to drugs went to prison for some time and he said I
can never tell you what happened inside prison cause it was bad I can't even talk about it
right and he said it in a way that was highly indicative of something terrible happening
right what the fuck man what the fuck I mean maybe I relate to him more just cause he's
a celebrity and I know him through the movies and stuff like that but if you don't anybody
going to prison how's it fucking acceptable to say oh OK Bob's off to prison well good
luck you're going to get raped all the time but also think about the number of people
who get caught for possession let's say they are addicted to drugs like Robert Downey Jr.
was right so you're solution is to send them to prison where they're likely to get raped
and that's supposed to rehabilitate them how that's been our solution to it isn't amazing
alright as you can tell I'm dumbfounded by this