Prisoners' rights under threat

Funny story written by cthomson

Monday, 4 July 2005

The prisoners at Milwaukee State Penitentiary are fighting. Not over race, ethnicity, orientation, or what's for dinner, but for their rights.
An incident involving John Bowie, an inmate in the medium security unit, sparked a strike that will see no end until a new law is passed beefing up prisoners' rights.
A hundred illegal immigrants have been hired to do menial tasks around the prison such as washing dishes and floors, taking trash to the dumpster, and putting fistfuls of coleslaw and slabs of T-bone steak onto trays.
"We had to hire [the Latin Americans, Vietnamese, etc.], otherwise the inmates would be living in a pig-pen, starving," said Warden Jack Splat, regarding the strike. "But on the other hand you have to understand them. They really feel the John Bowie incident could lead to further infringements on their rights."
John Bowie is a member of Naturist Unashamed Felons International. NUFI has members in countries all over the world, and they generally keep in contact with each other through monthly newsletters circulated by those "Nufies" that have already been released. Mr. Bowie, along with three hundred members worldwide (no pun intended, as there are also women in the organization), bared himself in the cafeteria last Friday.
Another would be Nufie was in solitary confinement, and didn't have the chance to participate in the demonstration. Bowie ended up in solitary as well.
Bowie's lawyer, Carl Freud, told The Spoof, "He's fighting for his rights here in prison. He's sending out a message that can't be ignored. Just because you're a convicted felon, doesn't mean you've lost your right to naturism."
The Attorney General made an official statement. "Contrary to what people such as Jack Splat say, we cannot understand these troublemakers. They were never naturists before they went to jail, and released Nufies are not naturists now."
Bowie disagreed: "I've always had naturist tendencies. Ever since I went skinny-dipping when I was twelve I've known this is the way my life has to be." After wiping a tear from his eye Bowie continued, "And I gotta be strong. I gotta fight for the rights of minorities. First it was Muslims asking for pork to be cancelled from their menus, then it was adherents of the Holy TV religion getting TVs in their cells, now the time has come for naturist felons to have their rights respected."
"We're gonna fight this to the Supreme Court if needs be," said Freud. "We won't put up with discrimination. To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by what they do or do not wear but by the content of their character. With the passing of a law in support of naturist inmates, we'll be one step closer to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream."
Sabrina Harman and other convicts from the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in Iraq where it was alleged that Iraqi prisoners were forced to strip naked and perform indecent acts are now appealing several of the charges against them, saying that the so-called "torture" was only punishment. They say that the men actually had undressed themselves, being members of NUFI, and were simply punished for the indecent exposure.

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