Sharpes , Florida ( CNN ) -- For most , jail may well be an unpleasant experience . Some facilities are rough and tough places , serving bad food and filled with a whole host of society 's underachievers . Meanwhile , one Florida jail is being sued by one of its inmates who says he 's being tortured -- because he has to watch the same movies over and over again . `` It 's a lot like Chinese water torture , '' said James Poulin . In an interview with CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13 , Poulin said that the Brevard County Detention Center 's inmates are n't able to watch regular television and are forced to watch the same movies repeatedly . Movies like wartime epics `` Saving Private Ryan , '' and `` Black Hawk Down , '' and the holiday classic `` Polar Express , '' with its boisterous children on a speeding train . `` I hear those little kids screaming through my brain . All night long I can hear them , '' Poulin said . `` I can close my eyes , but I 'm still going to hear them over and over and over , '' he added . Poulin has been at the jail for almost four years now , so it 's not too surprising that he 's seen a couple of the features more than once . He 's been there since early 2007 , when he was charged in a DUI crash that killed his female passenger . Poulin should have been at the jail only a short time , but he 's filed 15 court motions for continuances , which have delayed his trial . He 's also filed six lawsuits against the jail . All the previous lawsuits have been dismissed except one in which he demands access to newspapers and publications . `` We 're not preventing him from receiving any material , '' said Commander Susan Jeter of the Brevard County jail . `` He just has to get a subscription and pay for it , '' she told CNN . But magazines and newspapers are taking a back seat to Poulin 's complaints in a new lawsuit that he has to watch the same movies again and again . Jeter says that tough economic times have affected the jail 's budget , just like they 've affected most people 's budgets . When the broadcast networks switched over to digital technology , the jail would have been forced to purchase new TV equipment . As a savings move , the jail decided to keep its old TVs and DVD players , thereby losing the ability to get TV channels . `` We decided to do things more constructively , '' said Jeter . Jail officials restructured their program to offer more educational DVDs , as a way to help the inmates . `` We try to keep them informed , and provide something that could keep them from getting AIDS or hepatitis ... .instead of watching Jerry Springer , '' said Jeter . Jeter says that historical DVDs are often followed by movies about the period . So , movies like `` Saving Private Ryan , and `` Black Hawk Down , '' have gotten some play . But that does n't appear to be good enough for Poulin . It seems he does n't necessarily have to have his MTV , but he does crave just plain TV . `` The jail has the necessary equipment already to go ahead and give us regular TV , '' he said . `` We have a right to the media in jail , '' he said . Jail officials say that in the time that live TV access has been gone from the jail , inmate-on-inmate violence is way down . `` There are families that do n't even have cable TV . We ca n't bring it in for his ( Poulin 's ) benefit , at the taxpayers ' expense , '' said Jeter . `` He does n't have to watch it , '' she said of the movies programming . `` He can go in his room and close the door . He can read a book . No one forces him to watch . '' `` When you have someone here as long as him , he is going to see a rerun . ''
A Florida jail inmate says watching the jail 's few movies over and over is `` torture '' Jail officials say they do n't have cable TV for cost reasons , but they do have movies and DVDs . The inmate wants to take it to court . Score: 7