Looking for a little action?

You might want to try the San Francisco County Jail's San Bruno lockup, where authorities have installed 16 condom machines for the jail's 750 prisoners.

The condom dispensers are the latest evolution in a safe-sex program that began in 1989, when health workers began distributing condoms to inmates as part of their counseling before they were released.

And although sex among inmates technically is illegal, the Sheriff's Department went ahead and installed the 16 machines anyway - one for each jailhouse pod - paid for by a pair of small grants from UCSF and a Southern California nonprofit.

"It may be controversial," Sheriff Michael Hennessey said, "but I think the larger health education message is important."

As for the chance that all those machines will actually promote jailhouse sex?

The sex already takes place, says Kate Monico Klein, who is directing the program for the city's Public Health Department. "If (providing condoms) saves one or two lives, it's worth it," she said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/08/BAQ91FA4QO.DTL&type=politics#ixzz0yyBTdpDa

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Hmmmm. Most jail sex isn't consensual. That's only my 25+ years in prison work opinion. Have they heard about the PREA? Prisoner Rape Elimination Act? Some Federal law requiring states to comply with certain standards to eliminate sexual predation in jails and prisons.

Bet they want to include juvenile detention in the end. Pardon the pun!

Do guys bother with a condom for prison rape? Oh yeah I guess some rapists do. Not out of consideration for their victims, just to reduce the chance of leaving DNA evidence.