Prison Rape
"This is a human disaster of monumental proportion, and the eagerness with which we laugh it off is an indictment of our notions of justice."
(Emily Hauser)
I know this post is a disturbing topic, but you need to read this, folks.....
Why America's prison rape epidemic is everyone's problem
"The Bureau of Justice Statistics has found that in 2011 alone, some 200,000 people were sexually victimized in the American prison system. Stronger inmates prey on the weak, and far too many guards close their eyes, collude, or are themselves rapists."
"The need to genuinely address what amounts to taxpayer-funded and state-sanctioned rape in our prisons is acute and quite desperate. We cannot idly abide the tortures to which some inmates are regularly subjected."
"Prison rape exists on a continuum that winds its way through our streets and our schools and our homes and our workplaces; only when we begin to recognize and champion the full human autonomy of all people, no matter their gender, place in the hierarchy, or time served, will we begin to truly free ourselves of its evil."
The strong preying on the weak.
Prison turning into a prison.
How sad.
more info: http://m.justdetention.org/learn-the-basics.htm and https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/02/25/a-boy-among-men
Out for now......
Matt
