INMATE SUES THE GOVERNOR FOR THE RIGHT TO BEAT HIS MEAT!

A Michigan inmate is suing to add a Penthouse to his jail cell.

Accused bank robber Kyle Richards filed a five-page lawsuit against the state last month demanding access to pornography while in prison.

The absence of smut from the lockup forces Richards to suffer "a poor standard of living, suffering from both sexual and sensory deprivation," the prisoner claimed in his handwritten filing.

Richards, 21, is no scholar, legal or otherwise. He was busted in January after police followed a trail of dropped cash and snowy footprints from a bank to his apartment in Fraser, Mich.

But that didn't stop him from suing in U.S. District Court over the porn-free conditions at the Macomb County jail.

"Such living conditions have been used as a method of 'psychological warfare' against prisoners, in order to both destroy the morale of inmates and break the spirit of individuals," his lawsuit charged.

There's one major problem with the suit: Although Richards named the state as the defendant, the Michigan state prisons allow inmates to keep Penthouse, Playboy and certain other pornographic materials.

The Macomb lockup, where Richards is jailed on $500,000 bail, is under county rules barring porn from their facility. So he's targeting the wrong folks with his suit.

Even the local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union isn't optimistic about Richards' chances.

"Prisons have a lot of leeway to regulate the material that comes in and out," Michigan ACLU Executive Director Kary Moss told The Detroit News.



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