"Watch your corn-hole buddy"
Posted on 04/05/2010 11:23:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
...Sexual abuse is a problem in prisons from Rikers Island to Albany.... Texas still stands out as the state where sexual assault in prison is most prevalent.
Five of the 10 prisons with the highest rates of sexual abuse in the country are in Texas. That includes the top two, Estelle Unit and Clements Unit.
Garrett Cunningham was an inmate at the Luther Unit in Navasota in 2000, when he says a corrections officer twice his size accosted him on his way to the shower, handcuffed him, raped him and then forced him into the shower. Cunningham said the officer threatened to have him transferred to “a rougher unit where I would be raped all the time” if he told anyone...
...Now, the federal government is implementing new standards...
New standards were proposed last June by a commission formed after passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003..
“Protecting prisoners from sexual abuse remains a challenge in correctional facilities across the country,” the commission for the new law stated in its 259-page report. “Too often, in what should be secure environments, men, women and children are raped or abused by other incarcerated individuals and corrections staff.”
...Nationwide, the rate of inmates reporting sexual victimization within a prior 12-month period was 4.5 percent. At Estelle, it was 15.7 percent.
Four other Texas prisons were in the top 10... Those prisons had rates of abuse from 9.3 to 13.9 percent...
...Not all sex between corrections officers and inmates is coerced; 6 percent of Clements inmates reported consensual sex with staff. But even if an inmate is willing to have sex with a corrections officer, it is illegal.
Because of guards' position of power over their charges, prisoners cannot legally consent to sex with corrections officers...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
If you don’t want to give it up, don’t do the crime.
Gonna say if you ain't lookin' for lovin' from Bubba, don't do the crime.....
I had a female co-worker quit to take a job as a corrections officer;she was really into the whole "uniform" thing.
That go for young males who were sexually abused by staff?
There exists a culture of corruption in prisons.
And we are on the hook for a potential civil rights lawsuit for millions of dollars.
Yes, because we know innocent people are never falsely accused, right?
I personally think that prision staff really doesn’t care if inmates are raped.
Seems homos are the more likely to go to prison as there seems to be loads of prison rape. Straight men don’t rape other men. Homosexuality is a mental illness.
"Watch your corn-hole buddy"
Texas just has to be the most horrible state in the union! LOL!
(I love Texas, wouldn’t live anywhere else)
You do understand that they also permit violent attacks and murders as well, right?
Don’t care.
That seems a little unworkable considering the 3rd sentence of this article.
Problem is, some of them didn’t do the crime. Also, with the way our country is going, posting here or speaking out against zero could become a crime. Something like “sedicious conspiracy.”
In any event, no prisioner deserves to be raped. Period. Rape isn’t supposed to be part of our justice system.
In any event, no prisoner deserves to be raped. Period. Rape isn’t supposed to be part of our justice system.
I agree. It is just possible an inmate could have been wrongly convicted (the Mass. Day-Care abuse travesty comes to mind). Or someone could be in jail for a minor offense. Besides, allowing rape to continue is simply enabling and maybe providing additional training to people who will continue raping when they get out of prison.
I am going to have to totally disagree. Rape is not a part of the sentence. And non-violent and even completely innocent people go to jail too.
Having said that, I have to wonder why people are shocked by this kind of thing. Those in prison aren't generally nice guys.
The only way to prevent prisoner on prisoner rape is to put Chasity belts on them.... or build them little individual houses with showers, a bathroom, and nice kitchenette, and their own personal exercise yard.
“New standards were proposed last June by a commission formed after passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003.. “
If Congress actually cared about this law in 2003, the “New Standards” would not just last June, SIX YEARS LATER, finally be being proposed; they would have already been in place and in practice nationwide by then.
Does that absolve the Colon Rectal Officers or are you in favor of turning humans into toilets for others amusment?
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