Prison Rape Scandal Exposed

The news media have been engrossed with stories relating to Roman Catholic priests abusing young boys. This is a huge scandal about abuses in the Catholic Church that have been going on for decades. The attention now being given to them by the media is forcing the church hierarchy to take action to see that the offenders are rooted out and appropriately punished.

But the media have paid no attention to a book-length report by an organization called Human Rights Watch titled No Escape on a study of inmates in American prisons raping other male prisoners. This report says that brutal gang rapes are common in our prisons. It is estimated that prison rapes total about a hundred and forty thousand a year. That far exceeds the sexual abuse of young boys by Catholic priests. The Catholic Church has been sued or threatened with suits by many of the victims of its pedophile priests. Our prisons should also be held accountable for sexual attacks on men in their custody.

Human Rights Watch is primarily dedicated to exposing all manner of human rights violations around the globe. The study cites evidence that homosexuals incarcerated in prisons appear to be prime targets of the sexual predators. It collected many first-hand accounts of how new inmates who are not strong enough to defend themselves are seduced, coerced, raped and enslaved in many of our prisons. The only report of the Human Rights Watch study we have seen is one by Jared Taylor in the American Renaissance newsletter.

Taylor says that whites are the targets of blacks and Hispanics, who greatly outnumber white prisoners. He says they rape with impunity whites who lack protectors. The Human Rights Watch report says that tough inmates will even fight each other for an opportunity to rape an effeminate young white. It tells shocking stories of slavery in prison — men who chose to become the sex slave of one man rather than be subjected to violence and gang rapes. Taylor says, "Once a man owns another... he is property in every sense. He can be rented out, sold or auctioned, told how to dress and talk, and given a woman’s name. That this can happen is essentially unknown outside the prison world. One inmate said, ‘You can buy a kid for twenty or thirty dollars. They sell them like cattle.’"

Taylor says that Human Rights Watch could not find a single case in which a prisoner was charged with rape. He says that lengthening the sentences of the rapists would be a strong deterrent. Police have rape kits that are used to collect DNA, which makes it easy to find those who commit rapes in prison. A few of the victims have sued the prisons successfully, but No Escape explains why such suits are hard to win.

The victims have to prove that the prison officials knew of the risk to the victims and did nothing to protect them. It is not enough for the victim to argue that the risk was so obvious that a reasonable prison official would have noticed it. If the officials were required to use DNA to identify the rapists and then failed to keep them away from their victims, civil suits against them should stand a better chance of success.

just wait till the "They deserve to get raped" crowd shows up..

And that would not be me. Sometimes people on the outside seem to believe that what goes on in a prison will stay inside, but eventually most of these people get out.

For instance, John William King, one of them men who dragged James Byrd to death behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, had been in prison earlier, and watched a gang rape of a white man by blacks. It is obvious that his earlier prison experience had an influence on his later murderous act.

The number of AIDS cases must be one of the prison system's best-kept secrets.

If my memory serves me, didn't Bill Clinton then governor of Arkansas sell aids tainted blood to Canadians? The blood came from prison inmates.

when we would consider one man raping another to be a homosexual act by the rapist, prisoners seem to think that the rapist is not homosexual, just the person being raped is.

Make no mistake. The inmate rapist is a pervert! As such, they should be eternally isolated for their prison term. So that begs the question, is the warden who turns a blind eye to rape on his/her watch a pervert too?

the warden is sitting at some fancy dinner celebrating the newest grant he got, or the money that he has managed to raise from the state level to finance some pet project like redecorating his office.

It's this or the warden is also a pervert in order for these atroticities to continue unabated.

I'll say again for the record. Any warden, that turns a blind eye to the rape of any inmate in his/her care , is without doubt him/herself a pervert...since only a pervert could allow such indecency.

I think some of the exampled cited in this article are urban legend. Inmates "owning" other inmates, dressing them up like women and renting them by the hour? C'mon! But having read several books on prison life, I have no doubt that homosexual rape and other forms of sexual harrassment in prison are fairly common. None of this should be tolerated, of course. All our prison inmates serving out a sentence should be treated humanely and should not be put in a position where they can be raped or sexually abused. Any prison inmate engaging in predatory sexual behavior should have his prison term extended and be locked in a cell 24/7 for the duration. By removing these animals from the general population, the other inmates will be able to serve out their sentences with some dignity and hopefully have the chance to return to society reformed, and without a lot of emotional baggage.

"Taylor says that whites are the targets of blacks and Hispanics"

But if it were the Blacks who were getting raped by whites there would be a full scale Senate investigation.

John Ascroft's Justice department would follow.

But NO!!!!!All they care about are politicaly correct non violent profiling.

A$$H@L#$

OldSmaj, in reply to your post 32: No, it was not sarcasm, and yes, I have had more than a modicum of education, and no, I do not believe that saltpeter supresses the male sexual urge. The purpose of saltpeter was to prevent the male from having an erection. I understand that it did not particularly work well for that purpose, but I was using it as a generic term. There are several drugs on the market that could acomplish the purpose, as I cannot imagine the mecanics involved in raping while laking an erection. Perhaps for claritys sake I should refer to such drugs as anti-viagras?

What I can't understand is this apparent need in some that call themselves "conservative" to look out for the "needs" of convicts. You can call me "callous" I don't care.

Also, let's say this is something conservatives should be worried about. Exactly how do you propose stopping it? Lengthening sentences? Yeah, that'll work for lifers. Not to mention it'll put a nice burden on our already overworked justice system, as the perpetrator will have to be proven guilty of these rapes in a court of law.

The only way to stop this is to have cameras in every part of the prision, and have individual cells. Do any of you who feel such compassion for the convict really want to see more tax dollars go to such a project, when there are problems with our country today that have nothing to do with criminals?

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