Sex Offenders Can Now Read Porn In Swedish Prisons

Convicted sex offenders in Sweden are now free to read pornography in their cells after a court ruling that has angered the prison service.

The Stockholm Supreme Court has ruled that the Swedish Prison Service has no right to deny a rape convict access to his porn magazines.

Prison officials had argued that reading porn would interfere with the man's rehabilitation program.

They also argued the magazines posed a security problem for staff and other inmates because they could increase the risk of the man relapsing into criminal behaviour.

But the court said the prison service failed to prove that the magazines could "jeopardize the security of the institution."

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