Inmates At This Jail Get Shorter Sentences In Exchange For Getting A Vasectomy [View all]
Source: BuzzFeed News
Inmates can get out of jail 30 days early if they get a vasectomy or birth control implant.
Posted on July 20, 2017, at 7:27 p.m.
Brianna Sacks
Judge Sam Benningfield, who signed a standing order for the program.
Channel News 5
A jail in Tennessee is offering reduced sentences to inmates who voluntarily get a vasectomy or birth control implant in an effort to reduce the number of repeat offenders who can’t afford child support.
In what critics are calling unconstitutional and probably illegal, a new program enables inmates in White County, Tennessee, to get out of jail 30 days early if they undergo the birth control procedures.
Local judge Sam Benningfield, who conceptualized and signed a standing order permitting the program, told Channel News 5 that he hopes to break a "vicious cycle" of criminals who keep coming into his court room, struggling to find a job and unable to afford child support.
“I hope to encourage them to take personal responsibility and give them a chance, when they do get out, to not to be burdened with children,” Benningfield said. “This gives them a chance to get on their feet and make something of themselves.”
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/tennessee-jail-inmate-birth-control-procedures?utm_term=.geZV6XnBx#.sdgeZv13Y
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