FUN WITH HOT SAUCE...IN PRISON

Today, I really wanted to write about that Florida woman who killed herself because of her afflicting genital arousal sexual disorder, but then this story popped up and it was so much more entertaining. So, it just so happens that a North Carolina prison warden has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that inmates were forced to rub hot sauce on their genitals. Don't knock it unless you've tried it...Not that I have or anything. 

Anyway, Department of Public Safety spokeswomen Pamela Walker stated that Sampson Correctional Institution administrator, Lafayette Hall, has been put on a paid leave while the State Bureau of Investigation reviews what happened at the Clinton facility. A correctional officer was to have also been put on leave.  

Back in July, six inmates from Sampson sent a hand-written letter to the U.S. District Court in Greensboro complaining that the staff had forced them to perform numerous humiliating acts for the entertainment of the other guards, including stripping nude and pretending to have sex. The medium-security facility houses about 500 male inmates and is about 60 miles southeast of Raleigh, NC. The inmates also reported being forced to gulp a super-hot "Exotic Hot Sauce" purchased off the Internet and rub it all over their testicles, as well as being forced to grab and kiss wild snakes while working on a road crew and throwing captured bunnies in to oncoming traffic. Who does this? Animals do this! The inmates who performed for the guards were rewarded with preferential work assignments, food, cigarettes and beer. Just a little side note, tobacco and alcohol are banned from North Carolina's prisons. 

In their letter, the inmates ask for the court's assistance in finding lawyers to help them file a lawsuit against the state. They also stated that they feared for retaliation from the staff in the prison. Miss Walker said that the prison system first learned of the allegations through the internal grievances filed by the inmates and not from the letter to the court. Either way, the treatment of these prisoners is seriously screwed up! These guards need to be punished! As for the prisoners, they're in there for a reason, so I'm sure what they had to do for the guards, pales in comparison to the crimes they committed. That's unless they're in there for a speeding ticket or something.