Prison rape

[st_swithin]

Well, there's a time and a place for everything. Why'd I come back here in the first place?

You can believe, or you can be damned, it's all the same to me.

[:) Smiley]

Sorry to continue this threadjack, but it definitely is a Buddhist symbol, and in East Asia it is still primarily associated and used as such. It might also be a Hindu symbol though. Since there are hardly any Jews or Nazis in East Asia, it will probably remain as such.

[st_swithin]

Thanks, MrSmiley! My first athletic supporter!

[Dr Strangelove]

What does this hace to do with prison rape? I'll grant you that guys who wear Swastika tatoos are probably more likely to initiate a prison rape than the average prisoner, but in the US almost none of them are either Hindu or Buddhist.

[st_swithin]

Fill your hand, you son-of-a-*****!

[Sikander]

Originally posted by st_swithin


Why do you think Tyler is holding the soap in FC?

And it's made from the victim's own fat ass!

[st_swithin]

Hey now, let's not give away too many family secrets here...

[Sikander]

Btw, I agree completely that we need to stop prison rape and end the "cycle of violence". It may well have a material as well as moral benefit for our society.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by st_swithin
Hey now, let's not give away too many family secrets here...

"Ancient Chinese Secret huh?"

[tinyp3nis]

Originally posted by Asuka
Read the story of Rodney Hulin before you start making your stupid wiseass comments again.

My name is Linda Bruntmyer, and I am here today to tell you about my son, Rodney Hulin.

When Rodney was sixteen, he and his brother set a dumpster on fire in an alley in our neighborhood. The authorities decided to make an example of Rodney. Even though only about $500 in damage was caused by the fire, they sentenced him to eight years in an adult prison.

We were frightened for him from the start. At sixteen, Rodney was a small guy, only 5’2 and about 125 pounds. And as a first-time offender, we knew he might be targeted by older, tougher, adult inmates.

Then, our worst nightmares came true. Rodney wrote us a letter telling us he’d been raped. A medical examination had confirmed the rape. A doctor found tears in his rectum and ordered an HIV test, because, he told us, one-third of the prisoners there were HIV positive.

But that was only the beginning. Rodney knew if he went back into the general population, he would be in danger. He wrote to the authorities requesting to be moved to a safer place. He went through all the proper channels, but he was denied.

After the first rape, he was returned to the general population. There, he was repeatedly beaten and forced to perform oral sex and raped. He wrote for help again. In his grievance letter he wrote, “I have been sexually and physically assaulted several times, by several inmates. I am afraid to go to sleep, to shower, and just about everything else. I am afraid that when I am doing these things, I might die at any minute. Please sir, help me.”

Still, officials told him that he did not meet “emergency grievance criteria.” We all tried to get him to a safe place. I called the warden, trying to figure out what was going on. He said Rodney needed to grow up. He said, “This happens everyday, learn to deal with it. It’s no big deal.”

We were desperate. Rodney started to violate rules so that he would be put in segregation. After he was finally put in segregation, we had about a ten minute phone conversation. He was crying. He said, “Mom, I'm emotionally and mentally destroyed.”

That was the last time I heard his voice. On the night of January 26, 1996, my son hanged himself in his cell. He was seventeen and afraid, and ashamed, and hopeless. He laid in a coma for the next four months before he died.

Sadly, I know that Rodney is not alone. The human rights group, Stop Prisoner Rape gets calls and letters everyday from men and women who have survived prisoner rape and from their family members asking them for help, asking them to help them move to a safer place, asking them to help protect their loved ones who are being raped, asking them to explain why there is no one in authority that will step in and say, “No! This is not justice. This is not right.”.

We know that what happened to Rodney could have been prevented. There are ways to protect the vulnerable inmates and ways to respond to the needs of prisoners who have been sexually assaulted. Even so, vulnerable prisoners are being sexually brutalized across the country, everyday. Rodney tried to ask for help, and I tried too. But nothing was done.

Prison rape is wrong. Period.

Is that true? That is a horrible story. I wonder if these authorities who put him inside knew what kind of prison it was...
What is most twisted about prison rape is that it makes the bastards who most deserve to be there feel better and is hard on the weak or the ones not associsiated with crime (gangs).

[Dis]

I heard something like 33% of all rapes are men?

Can anyone confirm this?

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Sikander


"Ancient Chinese Secret huh?"

Yep, just like the hangover cure and the method for creating slaves.

Nice one.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by tinyp3nis

Is that true? That is a horrible story. I wonder if these authorities who put him inside knew what kind of prison it was...
What is most twisted about prison rape is that it makes the bastards who most deserve to be there feel better and is hard on the weak or the ones not associsiated with crime (gangs).

The thing which makes one really madin the Story about Rodney is,
that his Requests to be transferred to another Prison,
despite of him being raped and abused on several Occasions,
wasn´t granted by the Authorities (and so these people who denied his requests can be considered directly responsible for his suicide).
I hope the Parents of Rodney have taken some good lawyers and have sued the authorities (or the State).

After all it sounds very very sick, that you, after being raped, have to go back to the same people who raped you and your parents get to hear, that you have to grow up and that it is no big deal, that you are getting raped.

[Rasbelin]

Is that true? That is a horrible story.

Yes, unfortunately it's the bare naked the truth about what's happening inside prisons in the USA. That story was directly quoted by me from the website of the Stop Prison Rape campaign which tries to inform about what prison rape really means and tries to eliminate it. You can find more similar horror stories on the website of SPR. http://www.spr.org/

[SpencerH]

From a public health perspective, it's in our benefit to stop prison rape since prisons are breeding grounds for every STD including HIV.