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Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ
So your opinion on the subject is what, that the prison system is just overflowing with sadistic homosexual serial raping guards who roam the prison looking for fresh meat?
No. There are two things going on. First, you keep using the word "rape", and probably imaging in your mind that this data reflects a bunch of guards bending prisoners over in the shower. The activity being surveyed is much broader than that. Obviously you are aware of this, but people locked in prison have their personal privacy invaded more or less at the whims of guards, who often need to search for drugs / weapons, including anal cavity searches. It's really not hard at all to imagine that sometimes guards are less than sensitive to the dignity of the people they are searching, and a lot of what they do might be categorized as sexual assault. There can be taunting, insults, denigrations, being a little rough, etc.
You might not think of any of this as sexual assault. Perhaps you believe that most, if not all, of the people in prison have done something that makes them deserve to be violated in this manner on a repeated basis. But that's why it is important to get the viewpoint of the people to who this is being done, to understand that they are still human ****ing beings and that this is their experience being in prison.
Second, this is not necessarily an indictment of prison guards as human beings. See the Stanford Prison Experiments. Putting people in this position in this environment is simply going to lead to a horror story that is as predictable as it is unfortunate.
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Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ
If a male guard ever actually raped a male inmate, it would be such an oddity that it would make at least regional, if not national news. Here is a study showing such events are commonplace, which I believe requires some 3rd party evidence, such as convictions, rape kits, at the bare minimum a formal grievance filed by the inmate.
You don't think inmates have ever made a formal grievance? You really think that the prison warden is going to be like "yeah, we need a rape kit, stat!"??
Prisoner abuse cases are among the most common cases brought in federal courts... so common in fact that various doctrines of "standing" were developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 70s and 80s to effectively preclude their ability to bring suit. Just as an example, prisons in California have long been notoriously terrible. Recently, a district court found that they were so overcrowded that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
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Originally Posted by district court opinion in PLATA v. SCHWARZENEGGER
Tragically, California's inmates have long been denied even that minimal level of medical and mental health care, with consequences that have been serious, and often fatal. Inmates are forced to wait months or years for medically necessary appointments and examinations, and many receive inadequate medical care in substandard facilities that lack the medical equipment required to conduct routine examinations or afford essential medical treatment. Seriously mentally ill inmates languish in horrific conditions without access to necessary mental health care, raising the acuity of mental illness throughout the system and increasing the risk of inmate suicide. A significant number of inmates have died as a result of the state's failure to provide constitutionally adequate medical care. As of mid-2005, a California inmate was dying needlessly every six or seven days.
And yet you imagine that for some reason allegations of rape will be carefully investigated? It's ludicrous.
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Originally Posted by DblBarrelJ
It is at least a reasonable belief to assume that female inmates are raped by male guards on occasion, although I'd wager no where near as often as reported. But to believe that male inmates are raped by guards on a statistical level of anything lower than the odds of winning the lottery and being struck by lightning in the same day is an absurd position.
Your continued posting in this thread should serve as an embarrassment to law enforcement and the fact that your opinion is commonplace is testimony to the shameful state of American culture and it's complete lack of respect for human dignity.