Rape Factories - Why is the government doing so little to end sexual assault in prisons?

Reason ^ | 6/20/2011 | Lovisa Stannow

[NoLibZone]

Abu Ghraib is nothing compared to what happens in uber blue state prisons.

[count-your-change]

Let’s see....prisoners aren’t voters so who cares?

[microgood]

Contrary to popular belief, most of the perpetrators were not other prisoners but staff members—corrections officials whose job it is to keep inmates safe.

These disgusting scumbags should all be executed after being repeatedly sodomized with baseball bats. This is a national disgrace that all Americans should be ashamed of.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Prison rape is a horrible problem that needs to be addressed but it is the tip of the iceberg. Correctional facility staff are some of the most corrupt, unprofessional people on the face of the earth. Bringing drugs in, playing favorites among prisoners, holding grudges and taking it out on prisoners. Its a mess. And the administrators rely on the fact that the public thinks that prisoners deserve bad conditions to resist change. This is one rare area where government definitely needs to “do something.”

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

You think that prison rape only happens in blue states?

[Sgt_Schultze]

American prisons have the highest concentration of likely democrat voters in the US. It’s not surprising violence and criminal behavior go on in liberal bastions.

[NoLibZone]

"You think that prison rape only happens in blue states?"

No.

Nor did I say that.

[Chickensoup]

I have worked with men who have been arrested for misdemenors like possesion or public drunkeness and who have been repeatedly raped in jail. Horrific. Our jails have turned into torture chambers.

Mind you, I have no problem with capital punishment, I have no problem with imprisoning the guilty, I do have a problem with using prisoners to torture other prisoners or to have prisoners do the work the state needs to do, such as execution. When prisoners kill a person like a mass murderer, that is in my opinion, a failure of our justice system.

Few advocate for the imprisoned. But in this increasingly totalitarian society we are all closer to imprisonment than we can imagine

[NoLibZone]

"In 2009 Holder essentially rejected standards recommended by a bipartisan commission that spent years studying the problem of prisoner rape."

Will this be on the Front page of the NY Times a few dozen times?

Once?

[TheDingoAteMyBaby]

Will pigs ever fly?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Drug sentencing laws put offenders in state prison for possession of amounts of drugs that essentially are for personal use, and these offenders—usually young and not too tough—are the types who are preyed upon in these rapes (and yes, you are right—they are repeated rapes and other daily brutalizations). Way too many guards are incompetent or don't care or worse, are corrupt. Then you have these “for profit” prisons that charge prisoners $2 for a Ramen Noodles soup. I'm all for making people pay for crime too but our state prison systems are cesspools that need to be cleaned up.

[dools0007world]

By definition prisoners are intended to be treated poorly.

Sorry I can’t get excited about what happens to people who choose to be outlaws. Perhaps, if they’d made a better choice they wouldn’t have placed themselves in that kind of jeapardy.

In any case it is impossible to fix all imagined and real problems in this country all at once. Therefore, priortization is requited. My priority is the millions of unborn human babies who’re killed annually by doctors and staff who get rich enjoying what they’re doing.

[Borax Queen]

BTTT

[Chickensoup]

Let’s see....prisoners aren’t voters so who cares?

Blue state prisoners vote.

[Chickensoup]

By definition prisoners are intended to be treated poorly.

Sorry I can’t get excited about what happens to people who choose to be outlaws. Perhaps, if they’d made a better choice they wouldn’t have placed themselves in that kind of jeapardy.

In an increasingly totalitarian world this could happen to you and yours. Life threatening jepordy is not ok for minimal offenses. Screw it, life threatening jepordy is not ok for anyone, if you support torture, your moral meter is stuck on stupid.

[DariusBane]

Just another reason to be scared of giving government power over citizens. Yet conservatives want more cops more jails and more abandonment of the fourth amendment, and lots of strings on the second amendment.

Conservatives built our police state. It is up to us to dismantle the police state. But I doubt we can. Many many Freepers argue for extra judicial punishment on “Ferrell humans” through cop beat-downs. So again conservatives have been a big part of this through an urge to preserve institutions and provide “Law and Order”..

[Vermont Lt]

So you think it is OK for young men to be raped repeatedly when their crimes are for much lesser offenses?

Must be nice up in that ivory tower.

[DariusBane]

You have no respect for justice nor for liberty. Declaration of Independence talks about life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This country today is more interested in the the pursuit of imprisoning fellow citizens. The War on Drugs has destroyed the fourth amendment made a mockery of the fifth and the 10th. You can't put your boat on the water without registering, paying taxes. Driving a car, hunting, opening a business, selling fresh eggs by the side of the road all require permits. Lots of ways to end up in jail. Liberty is dead and you are cool with prison gang rapes. This attitude against the very concept of Liberty has made me reject American style Conservative thought. Your attitude is THE problem with Law and Order conservatives. I demand justice for property crimes, injury, death. That's it. Instead we have a thousand ways to end up in jail and be gang raped. You are cool with that.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness.

Liberty is dead and despised. Justice for you and mercy for me.

[ansel12]

Indifferent to homosexual rape, got you.