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Originally Posted by TheQuietAnarchist
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.
I don't believe I've ever heard of anyone at a DOC other than a medical staff member being allowed to perform an anal cavity search, and prior to that search being performed, the Warden had to approve it. In my state, we have a chair, we call it the Hot Seat, which is like an x-ray chair. The only way a Warden in this state is going to approve a search is with an x-ray of foreign objects in the individuals rectum. Granted I haven't worked for every DOC, but I still find it difficult to believe after working in several prisons that a guard can, without cause, just go "I want to check your anus" and the inmate is forced to comply.
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Originally Posted by TheQuietAnarchist
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.
So rather than using a reasonable man standard, we just let everyone decide what sexual assault is to them and hold everyone else to that standard? What if I decide that you looking at me is "Sexual Assault"? Are you ready to go to jail for sexually assaulting me in the grocery store? The reasonable man standard is used to stop people with unreasonable views from being able to control society. It's the same as using force. Just because you felt threatened because I stare at you doesn't give you the right to shoot me. You'll still get convicted. Same here. If these inmates feel that trained medical staff performing anal cavity searches after a non invasive x-ray procedure shows contraband = sexual assault, I disagree. The general public disagrees. A "Reasonable Man" disagrees. Therefore the claims are absurd.