A correctional facility, not a forensic psychiatric facility. We still have a significant number of clients with psychotic disorders. The threshold to be placed in a forensic psychiatric facility is MUCH higher than you stated above.

You are COMPLETELY wrong about that. About half of the inmates where I work (in the mental health department) require mental health services, and about two-thirds of them require psychiatric medication, including anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers.

Yeah, I am also not questioning her experience. I fully believe it could be less degrading to do porn than to work at Wal Mart. But it does not in any way change how I feel about porn . . . it just reminds me of how much I also hate Wal Mart.

Uh, no, not really. I think it actually illustrates a big part of WHY I don't like porn — think through the implications of this statement in terms of the intersectionality of gender, class, and power here.

When I was a kid, my doctor told my parents they thought I might have leukemia, but it turned out I was just undernourished and it was negatively impacting my immune system, so I kept getting sick. Once my diet improved, I stopped bruising so easily and being tired all the time and getting sick so much. After that…

To play the devil's advocate for a moment . . . sex toys for men are not "liberating," because men do not need to be liberated. In general, men's masturbation is an expectation, whereas women's is not (though this has been changing — yay! orgasms for everyone!). But I'm not a fan of the double standard swinging the…

For spouses to get it on.

As someone currently working in a facility, they are not ALL "sociopaths," and that attitude is damaging to rehabilitation and recidivism. You don't have to be a monster to have done a bad thing, and not all crimes are violent crimes. I'm glad you're retired, because you seem to hold some outdated view points.

Can I ask what you do? Are you a CO? I work in a facility, too, and honestly, I have NEVER been disrespected by an incarcerated man to my face except for blatant staring because I have (appropriately covered) boobs and an ass.

Where I work, the current cost is $6 to connect and 70 cents per minute. It is very, very expensive to call your loved ones while incarcerated.

It is when you've moved to the east coast :-(

I know, it's bad. But accurate!

It's drawing me back in, though! I've just about finished a master's and I feel it's my responsibility to return and try to make it better for all of us.

I lived in Fresno for a little while as a kid, but I really grew up in Stockton. Is it rough? Yeah. Did a kid in my sixth grade class bring a gun to school? Uh-huh. Did my high school principal have to have surgery after being attacked by students? Sure. But it's home.

I've lived in both, but Stockton is really home. Sometimes we call it "Stockton-home Syndrome," which is an even more terrible pun when typed than when said out loud . . .

Tule fog has made me a better driver!

But . . . then WHY did you call it the five? And I competed in the Science Olympiad State competition in Fresno, so I feel ya on the dork factor.

You have revealed yourself as a southern californian ("the five," continuing to refer to Fresno as a small town), and as such, you do not get to pick on the central valley.

I've lived in both Stockton and Fresno, and I'd pick Stockton any day of the week.

I will rep Stockton hard, forever. DUBNINE, YO. <3