It may be necessary in order to control psychotic schizophrenics. I'm sure this drugging of normal inmates is not condoned. I believe that by itself is an assault, let alone the rape.
I believe folks that commit rape in jail should get a life sentence. If they are knowingly HIV positive, and they commit rape in jail, they should be executed.
I concur...but there's a major problem: once the rapist gets the life sentence, what punishment do you then inflict? Double-secret-probation life sentence?
And hell, sentencing an HIV-positive rapist to death is an exercise in futility. What with all the automated appeals, the HIV+ prisoner will die of his disease long before his date with the executioner comes up.
Personally, I think all prisoners should be in solitary confinement and only allowed out of the cell when fitted with a shock collar. No TV. No cable. No girlie mags. No working out to be an even greater menace to society when they get released.
Inhumane? Perhaps...but it's a far cry from being raped by bubba, ain't it?