prison rape: your thoughts

sponger
sponger Posts: 3,159
edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
I was profoundly struck by an editorial I read in the paper today regarding the frequency and severity of prison rape in both male and female US prisons.

Are convicts getting what they ultimately deserve, or is the widespread apathy of prison officials about this grotesque subject endangering the last hope of rehabilitation for society's misguided?

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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    My thoughts? It is my main motivation for behaving myself.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    NO ONE, i repeat NO ONE deserves to be raped.
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  • depopulationINC
    depopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    I agree with both of the above posts.
    Also, while this might be extra motivation not to go to prison, I believe it ends up hardening (no pun intended) and criminals and making them bitter. That can't help them when they get out.
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  • Nevermind
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    No one deserves it.
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    It should be prosecuted more vigorously.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • lazymoon13
    lazymoon13 Posts: 838
    catefrances wrote:
    NO ONE, i repeat NO ONE deserves to be raped.
    except innocent americans because of actions by the US government over the years ;)
  • g under p
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    Don't let us forget that they're many who are imprisoned who turn out later to be completely innocent. A crime that should never happen but unfortunately does.

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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    catefrances wrote:
    NO ONE, i repeat NO ONE deserves to be raped.
    x2
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Aren't the stats 1 out of every 10 people are in Jail in the US, and 10 times more blacks than whites at that? or something like that..

    Kinda looks like they made the jails for black people...
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    catefrances wrote:
    NO ONE, i repeat NO ONE deserves to be raped.


    I agree to an extent... for me though, I could care less if child rapists are raped in prison.
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    blackredyellow wrote:
    I agree to an extent... for me though, I could care less if child rapists are raped in prison.

    Perpetuating a wrong does nothing to solve any problems. It's just revenge...which is never good.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    know1 wrote:
    Perpetuating a wrong does nothing to solve any problems. It's just revenge...which is never good.

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    But two Wrights make an airplane.

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i'm pretty much anti-rape. thats my stance on this subject!
  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    catefrances wrote:
    NO ONE, i repeat NO ONE deserves to be raped.


    Child molesters and pedophiles deserve everything they get including ass raped.
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    My thoughts are first of all, no one should suffer rape, and that people who suffer this in prison are less likely to be rehabilitated, and more likely to continue to be a threat to society and cost the taxpayers more money. So it can be looked at as a practical matter as well as a humanitarian one and should be improved for a variety of reasons.
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  • Solat13
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    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Aren't the stats 1 out of every 10 people are in Jail in the US, and 10 times more blacks than whites at that? or something like that..

    Kinda looks like they made the jails for black people...

    The US population crossed the 300 million mark in October of 2006.

    At year end 2006, there 2,258,983 Americans in prison or .75% of the population. So less than 1 out of every 100 Americans are in jail.
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  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    Gremmie95 wrote:
    Child molesters and pedophiles deserve everything they get including ass raped.
    Vengeance is not justice. Or make sure your lawmakers make a new law stipulating pedophiles must be raped as a judgment of the people (and pray you never have to live a judicial mistake).
    I don't think anyone deserves to be raped, prison is used as a privation of your freedom and basic rights, not a place for torture.
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    Solat13 wrote:
    The US population crossed the 300 million mark in October of 2006.

    At year end 2006, there 2,258,983 Americans in prison or .75% of the population. So less than 1 out of every 100 Americans are in jail.


    http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/28/prison.population.ap/

    Report: 1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars

    Story Highlights :

    2.3 million U.S. adults incarcerated at beginning of 2008, Pew report says

    50 states spent $49 billion on corrections last year

    U.S. has more people in prison than any other country

    1 in 9 black males behind bars, report says

    NEW YORK (AP) -- For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.

    The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.

    Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the
  • flywallyfly
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    Tool ~~ Prison Sex
    =================================
    It took so long to remember just what happened.
    I was so young and vestal then,
    you know it hurt me,
    but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
    even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
    I've got my hands bound,
    my head down, my eyes closed,
    and my throat wide open.

    Do unto others, what has been done to me,
    Do unto others, what has been done to you?

    I'm treading water,
    I need to sleep a while.
    My lamb and martyr, you look so precious.
    Won't you come on up closer,
    close enough so I can smell you.
    I need you to feel this,
    I can't stand to burn too long.
    Release in sodomy.
    Oh, for one sweet moment I am whole.

    Do unto you now, what has been done to me,
    Do unto you now, what has been done?

    You're breathing so I guess you're still alive
    even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
    Won't you come on a bit closer,
    close enough so I can smell you.
    I need you to feel this.
    I need this to make me whole.
    Release in sodomy.
    For I am your witness and
    blood and flesh can be trusted.(X2)
    And only this one holy medium brings me peace of mind.

    Got your hands bound, your head down,
    your eyes closed.
    You look so precious now.

    ( Show me something
    Thought I could make it end
    Thought I could wash the stains away
    Thought I could break the circle if I
    Slipped right into your skin
    So sweet was your surrender
    We have become one
    I have become my terror
    And you my precious lamb and martyr.) *

    I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this
    shit, blood, and cum on my hands.

    I've...come...round...full circle.
    My lamb and martyr, this will be over, soon.
    You look so precious.(X4)
    You look so precious, now,
    You look so precious...

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