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More than a decade after the government promised “zero” tolerance of sexual violence in U.S. jails and prisons, the problem remains widespread, according to a new U.N. report. An estimated seven percent of inmates were victimized in 2011 — a number that has remained relatively consistent with previous reports.
Now, a federal law designed to curb the problem may be quietly gutted in Congress before it fully takes effect, according to a new report in The Marshall Project, a nonprofit dedicated to covering criminal justice news.
In 2003, Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which required the Justice Department to establish standards to prevent and respond to sexual abuse in detention, which it issued in 2012. States were supposed to show by this past May that they were coming into compliance with those regulations — or lose five percent of federal funding for some programs.
Most are still behind. As of May 15, only two — New Hampshire and New Jersey — were in compliance. Another 46 states and U.S. territories have given assurances that they are working toward compliance. That allows them to keep their funding until August 2016 without undergoing an audit. Seven have refused to comply.
As the Marshall Project reported, Sen. John Cornyn, (R-Texas) proposed an amendment in September that would remove financial penalties for such states. It failed, but the report suggests he plans to try again when the next session of Congress opens in January.
During a hearing on the amendment, Cornyn said the funding states stand to lose supports programs for police and domestic violence victims, who shouldn’t be punished if states fail to meet their PREA requirements.
Cornyn’s own state is one of seven that have refused to adopt the new PREA standards. Texas Governor Rick Perry called the law “counterproductive and unnecessarily cumbersome” in a letter to the Attorney General Eric Holder earlier this year, saying the state was already taking its own steps to deal with the problem. Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska and Utah also refused to comply, some of whom objected to some of the PREA requirements or said they had their own policies for dealing with sexual violence.
The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, a bipartisan panel set up by PREA to investigate the problem of sexual abuse in U.S. facilities, wrote to the attorney general last month expressing “grave concern” that such an amendment would further dilute the law.
“There is every indication that certain senators will continue their efforts to attach to it or use some other vehicle to amend the penalty portions of PREA,” the group wrote. Without that financial incentive, it said, states would have no reason to comply. Efforts to eliminate prison rape “does not get much support or attention from politicians, public leaders or the public at large,” it said.
The law as it was passed isn’t perfect. It didn’t cover immigrant detention facilities, which are run by the Department of Homeland Security and faced major problems with sexual violence. President Barack Obama extended those rules to DHS facilities in May 2012; the department said it would put them in place by early 2013.
But PREA did mark for the first time a concerted effort to address sexual abuse in prisons in jails, most of which is believed to go unreported.
Pat Nolan, a member of the bipartisan panel, told the Marshall Project that the Justice Department’s willingness to delay state audits, along with earlier delays, only further puts off implementation of the law.
“It’s been a passive-aggressive behavior,” he said. “They haven’t publicly come out and said we hate this law and don’t want to enforce it, but all their actions show they want to drag this out as much as possible.”
Will Congress Gut Law to Eliminate Prison Rape?
Thanks to prison rape, it's entirely likely that the average American male faces a higher likelihood of being a victim of rape than any woman.
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This is one of the pathologies of modern conservatism: an infantile obsession with law and order of the petty, mean variety. (Yes, I'm right-wing, but I also have a heart.) Conservatives are obsessed with humiliating and punishing people for even the most minor crimes, which is why they oppose drug legalization and support the War on Drugs despite the fact that it's a complete failure. Think Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his sadistic treatment of prisoners and criminals in his jurisdiction. Feminist/SJW rape hysteria has gotten so far in part by playing off conservatives' law and order fetish.
The mentality of conservative politicians like Cornyn is that prisoners are bad people, therefore they don't deserve any rights. If they get raped, beaten and abused, so what? Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time (in a world where the "crime" can be everything from smoking a joint to forgetting to carry a digit on your taxes)!
It's a good thing to see many rank-and-file conservatives pushing back against the police state, but the politicians, per usual, are still corrupt shitbags.
The mentality of conservative politicians like Cornyn is that prisoners are bad people, therefore they don't deserve any rights. If they get raped, beaten and abused, so what? Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time (in a world where the "crime" can be everything from smoking a joint to forgetting to carry a digit on your taxes)!
It's a good thing to see many rank-and-file conservatives pushing back against the police state, but the politicians, per usual, are still corrupt shitbags.
Something I'm curious about; There is no prison rape in Turkey, only shanking. I never heard of prison rape in Europe, in Russia, in Asia. What is it about American inmates that when they are locked up together they have to rape each other? This is an interesting phenomenon. I don't think it's about horniness or being violent in nature. I'm sure inmates worldwide are just as horny and violent as Americans. So what is it, a cultural thing? Maybe lack of traditional gender roles in the society pushes men to think it's okay to fuck men if there are no women around? 7% rape rate is just nuts.
There is prison rape all over the world, not sure what your talking about Turkish candy. As a matter of fact I watched a Russian prison documentary not to long ago and inmates who get "turned out" are forced to get a tattoo showing that there a bitch and up for grabs!
Quote: (12-04-2014 08:25 AM)Brian Shima Wrote:
There is prison rape all over the world, not sure what your talking about Turkish candy. As a matter of fact I watched a Russian prison documentary not to long ago and inmates who get "turned out" are forced to get a tattoo showing that there a bitch and up for grabs!
No there isn't. It might be occasional, but not on such a strong pattern as in U.S. I personally never heard of prison rape in Turkey and in Europe. On the other hand in U.S it's like, if you are a young average looking whilte guy going in high security prison, it's almost a guarantee that you will get raped. That doesn't happen ''all over the world''.
Quote: (12-04-2014 10:44 AM)turkishcandy Wrote:
Quote: (12-04-2014 08:25 AM)Brian Shima Wrote:
There is prison rape all over the world, not sure what your talking about Turkish candy. As a matter of fact I watched a Russian prison documentary not to long ago and inmates who get "turned out" are forced to get a tattoo showing that there a bitch and up for grabs!
No there isn't. It might be occasional, but not on such a strong pattern as in U.S. I personally never heard of prison rape in Turkey and in Europe. On the other hand in U.S it's like, if you are a young average looking whilte guy going in high security prison, it's almost a guarantee that you will get raped. That doesn't happen ''all over the world''.
Because no one cracks down on it and the disgusting practice is consequently adopted by more faggot rapist sociopaths behind bars.
In a just world prison guards would beat them to death for that shit.
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how would you know Turkish, you havent been to European prisons. Are you talking to ex cons? The same crap goes on every where. It is more common in America because theres more prisoners than other countries and the longer sentences
Quote: (12-04-2014 10:44 AM)turkishcandy Wrote:
Quote: (12-04-2014 08:25 AM)Brian Shima Wrote:
There is prison rape all over the world, not sure what your talking about Turkish candy. As a matter of fact I watched a Russian prison documentary not to long ago and inmates who get "turned out" are forced to get a tattoo showing that there a bitch and up for grabs!
No there isn't. It might be occasional, but not on such a strong pattern as in U.S. I personally never heard of prison rape in Turkey ...
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Quote: (12-04-2014 10:59 AM)Brian Shima Wrote:
how would you know Turkish, you havent been to European prisons. Are you talking to ex cons? The same crap goes on every where. It is more common in America because theres more prisoners than other countries and the longer sentences
Brian Shima nailed it.
Americans are incarcerated at a far higher per capita rate and do longer sentences than anywhere on the planet. Common sense says that if u keep more people in prison for longer amounts of time they become institutionalized. If your reality is one where you may not touch another woman for 25-30yrs, I can understand how someone could choose to misdirect their sexual urges on to weaker more feminine males.
Also in the US the days of getting conjugal visits in the majority of US states are long gone. Other countries are still humane enough to maintain that practice.
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https://news.vice.com/article/inmates-ar...n-the-news
Although VICE is clearly taking the anti-manosphere route, this article is relevant.
Seems currently only 3 states: California, Washington and New York allow conjugal visits. Basically only the most liberal states. While in the conservative South/ Southwest 2 states removed the practice in 2014.
Some further digging reveals that its an Anglo thing, these countries don't grant conjugal visits either:
U.K.
Ireland
New Zealand
And the majority of Australia.
Canada is the lone exemption likely due to french-canadian influence.
Although VICE is clearly taking the anti-manosphere route, this article is relevant.
Seems currently only 3 states: California, Washington and New York allow conjugal visits. Basically only the most liberal states. While in the conservative South/ Southwest 2 states removed the practice in 2014.
Some further digging reveals that its an Anglo thing, these countries don't grant conjugal visits either:
U.K.
Ireland
New Zealand
And the majority of Australia.
Canada is the lone exemption likely due to french-canadian influence.
"I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not trying. Everyday hit every wave, like I'm Hawaiian"
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