Porn hits 4 prisoners in Sweden

Yesterday, as detailed here, the US Supreme Court ruled that American students did not have a right at a school function to unfurl a banner saying “Bong hits 4 Jesus.”  But, thanks to How Appealing, I see from this AP article that the “Supreme Administrative Court in Stockholm last week ruled that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service had no right to deny a rape convict access to his porn magazines.”   Here are more details:

Prison officials had argued that reading porn would interfere with the man’s rehabilitation program. They also said the magazines posed a security problem for staff and other inmates because they could increase the risk of the man relapsing into criminal behavior. But the court, whose ruling cannot be appealed, said the prison service failed to prove that the magazines could “jeopardize the security of the institution.”

Perhaps Sweden ought to be the country primarily in charge of trying to spread freedom around the world.