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- Alfdog, on 10/12/2007, -20/+342"We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to ***** Federal 'Pound me in the Ass' prison!"
- mysticmcj, on 10/12/2007, -27/+303> if you endanger people's lives like that you deserve what you get.
You don't have a problem with state sanctioned mass rapings? This isn't just happening to one person, it's throughout the entire institution. I don't care what someone has done, this is not the action of a civilized nation. - mysticmcj, on 10/12/2007, -9/+234Have you read the 8th amendment? You know, the whole thing about cruel and unusual punishment? I think having your colon forcibly perforated counts as cruel and unusual.
- meepus, on 10/12/2007, -14/+211Heliox, I disagree. It is the INACTION of the supposedly civilized officials running our prisons that allows this to happen on the scale that it does.
- scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -19/+198It's bad enough that rape happens in prisons and is tolerated in any way. It's even worse that people actually think that it's funny to joke about prison rape.
- an0nymous, on 10/12/2007, -16/+178Allright.
They guy was not sentenced to be raped.
The judge did not say "3 to 5 years of being brutally sodomized".
If he had been shanked and died, would he have had that coming?
We all know that kind of thing happens in prison.
I get it. You hate drunk driving.
Your *insert relative or friend here* was killed/maimed/mutilated.
I'm sorry for your loss.
I know his actions were not right and he deserves punishment and incarceration.
...At the hands of the authorities in a just and fair manner, rather than at the utter whim of whoever happens to be bigger and stronger.
You despise him for his lack of respect for the rule of law.
Where's yours? - Eleo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+163"No, I don't have a problem with it. Murderers and rapists get theirs in prison. I think that's a good thing.
At the very least, it's a deterrent. Most people don't commit crimes because of jail time. If you know Bubba's going to make you has bitch, that's an even bigger deterrent."
What about murderers and rapists that don't? What about non-violent offenders in prison? What about people who are in prison who are actually innocent? - nekitip, on 10/12/2007, -15/+159Horrid.
- xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -7/+119I've never understood why Americans just don't seem to care about prison rape. It's just a joke to us. I think it's an outrage. While I understand that we are talking about criminals here, they are still human beings. Prison should be about rehabilitation when possible and not just punishment. Getting locked up to get ***** in the ass by Leroy is not going to make you a happy and well adjusted citizen when you get out.
- meepus, on 10/12/2007, -12/+104What I'm worried about is that most people won't digg this story or alternatively, will comment making lewd jokes. Don't deride rape victims. There is hardly a more important social issue to deal with in the USA than prison rape. Some of you may feel like people in prison deserve this kind of treatment, but that's because you've never been incarcerated before. I've been in jail in Virginia simply for speeding on the highway (not a drop of alcohol or anything else in my system) and while I was not subjected to rape, if I hadn't been roomed where I was, I could've easily been. A person in jail or prison is utterly powerless when faced with those around them and the authorities that control their fates. Would you like to be rendered helpless to such savagery due to a crime as victimless and inoffensive as driving fast? Don't tell me you don't speed. If you don't, you're part of an underwhelming minority.
Part of my religion is that one of the reasons you're allowed to commit suicide is if you are to be forced into sexual slavery. The Jews of Masada and Gamla killed themselves rather than be treated like that by the Romans who conquered them. If you made a comment like baalzebub did around me, I'd come at you like a loaded gun, and with powerful justification. No one deserves rape. EVER. Under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. This report is not a joke. This report is serious *****. If you don't take it seriously on any sort of personal level, that's fine, but you keep your damned mouth shut about it. - kurtwinter, on 10/12/2007, -30/+118Why in the ***** would anyone think that getting ass raped is fair type of punishment for any crime?
We aren't talking about some sicko who abducts children and does unspeakables, we are talking about a regular guy who got caught a little tipsy three lousy ***** times.
And now, when people like this leave prison, what kind of life are they going to have? All they did was drive drunk for Christ's sake. They didn't rob a bank, or kill anyone (and don't give me that moralizing ***** about how he could have killed someone). And now society has to deal with this individual who got brutally sodomized, over and over again for a MOVING VIOLATION.
How can any reasonable person defend what happened to him? IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY OF US. - mrharvey518, on 10/12/2007, -9/+89Note to self: don't go to prison.
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -45/+124moral of the story, keep you're drunk ass of the road...
wanna drink? don't drive...
need to drive? don't drink...
i appreciate good booze as much as anyone, but i don't do it when i may need to drive somewhere... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -53/+131True. It is the action of uncivilized criminals.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -12/+90Those who have their panties in a bunch on 3 dui's, it doesn't necessarily mean the guy is driving around, well, drunk. I DO NOT condone drunk driving, however the law is pretty sketchy, and I'll give you an example.
There is a man I know who also has 3 DUI's, and he got them all around the holidays. His wife was cheating on him so he moved in with a friend who lives next to a popular bar. He'd get hammered, but wasn't comfortable going to his friend's because his friend had "company" over. So he sat in his car and listened to the radio. Cop car pulls by, bang, DUI #1. #2 occured for the same reason- yeah he's dumb for sitting in his car again but he was depressed and lonely, not thinking straight. However he had no intention of driving as he was already parked where he lived. #3 occured because the same cop drove by again while he was out having a cigarette but not in his car. It seems being within 50 feet of your car with the keys is enough for probable cause.
And there you have it, 3 DUI's without going anywhere. The guy is legally and financially screwed.
Also note: a second DUI is easy to do as its only requirement is *any* amount of alcohol in your system while driving. That means the bloke that gets pulled over not long after practicing proper oral hygiene by using Listerine could be rolled up for another. - meepus, on 10/12/2007, -7/+83Kurt is right. Like I said in another comment: I was in jail simply for speeding. Rape isn't consigned only to prison. Is rape a suitable punishment for speeding? Where's the line where rape is an okay punishment for something, or not? If we ever say, as a society, that rape is suitable, then we're no better than barbarians. Right now, by turning an indifferent eye... we're doing exactly that.
Martin Luther King Jr. was put in jail. Does that mean he deserved to be raped? How about Nelson Mandela? Legal is not right. Illegal is not wrong. Law is not Justice. - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -10/+78Note to self: don't get misidentified by a witness on a lineup
Note to self: don't shoot any home intruders because they could be plain clothes police officers
Note to self: don't be black and happen to look like the suspect
Note to self: don't break any secret laws that i don't happen to know about
Note to self: don't get accused of tax fraud because someone else stole my social security number
Note to self: don't get in state of finances to where i can't afford a good lawyer
I could go on, but there are plenty of things that could put you into prison that you have no control over.
It can and does happen. - TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -8/+70And sodomy is illegal in some states still. Jail time for sodomy where you'll have to endure FORCED sodomy. Irony anyone? How can anyone condone this when so many miscarriages of justice happen on a regular basis
- xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -8/+68And you guys wonder why the aliens won't just f'ing land already.
- BGFeltenink, on 10/12/2007, -10/+70Punishment must fit the crime or we are nothing but savages. Rape is not a valid punishment for driving under the influence, especially if he wasn't horribly overkill drunk. In any case, the length of his stay without the ability to make wages, the mark on his record, the lose of his license, and the money he has had to pay are more than enough punishment. No one deserves to be raped, not the bitchiest of girls that love to tease and not put out, not the gay guy at your school, not the lady wearing a skirt 1.5 inches lower than her crotch, and not those that are in our prison system.
Prison and jail are places where those inside have as much right to be protected as those of us outside. Certainly in the case where they have not committed a serious crime against another person. Guys like him have a strong chance to rehabilitate and maybe change their lives but none of us want jail to be a place like that. You all like the current system it seems, guy drives drunk and goes to jail... you celebrate that he has been raped while there. The jailers don't care about him, there isn't much he can do so even though he's only guilty of DUI he comes out much harder, possibly even wanting retaliation on the world. Not good.
For those that know they are getting into a bad pattern of behavior there are ways to help them return to a normal state of being. Rape isn't the proper method of doing that, guidance and opportunities are. Unfortunately, there are people who believe that even the people arrested in their homes for smoking cannabis deserve this kind of punishment simply because they broke the law. - floridiot2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59Rape is not something that should be allowed anywhere. Drinking and driving does not make it okay to be raped.
- elsupergringo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55You go to prison as a normal guy -- irresponsible and dangerously putting many people at risk with repeated drunk driving -- but still mostly normal. (Don't forget many people die in car accidents with sober people too).
You come out broken, raging, recalcitrant, despondent, depressed, violent, etc. Whatever happened to coming out rehabilitated?
I think anyone who wants an in depth story of what prison does to people should pick up Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song". It was about a guy who originally went to juvy for being a child troublemaker. After every imprisonment he tried to reclaim his dignity by committing a crime and not getting caught. This formed a pattern. Eventually he killed 2 guys "cuz he could". No other reason. Is this what we really want from our prisons?
To the people that suggest the threat of rape is a good deterrent: Look at any society in the past that relied on fear as a primary motivator or deterrent and you will find a civilization in decline.
One final note to those who say it doesn't happen as often as this letter makes it seem: Every prison is different. - mysticmcj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51Hey, just to make this absolutely clear - THIS ISN'T ABOUT A DUI. It's about an EPIDEMIC of BRUTAL RAPE in a federal institution, and it is akin to state sanctioned torture. If you are OK with this, then I guess you were fine with a little incident known as Abu Ghraib.
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Digg community: >HERE - CheezIt9109, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47The fact that "it's not a secret," is so prevalent, and is actually *defended* by some people is deeply disturbing
Being locked up for years and having almost no chance at a normal life afterwards is bad enough, but some of you actually don't care that this is going on? Disgusting pigs.
The fact that he's an idiot for drinking and driving is irrelevant. - iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -16/+56Note to self: Don't go to prison looking like a girl
- nullcodes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39@software2
Murderers and rapists do NOT get raped in prison. They are the ones doing the raping.
Anyone who is pro prison rape (which is illegal btw), is in favor of making prison a fun palace for murderers and rapists. And that's the reality.
Advocating and refusing to do anything about criminal acts (ie, tacit complicity) on prisoners doesn't make you pro justice, it makes you a criminal. - scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37You're wasting your time on these meatheads. They've made their little comment and moved onto the next post about Wii virtual console games.
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34On those "teenage bootcamp" shows like Sally Jesse Raphael, they like to threaten the kids with getting raped in prison.
It's almost as if it's become part of the expected and accepted punishment for criminals. How many times have you seen a story about a criminal on digg and seen "hope he gets pounded in the ass by bubba" within the first 5 comments? - qcfb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35I find it ridiculous that people don't care about this *****. Yes, the guy form the letter made mistakes, committed a crime and should be punished. However, turning a blind eye to systematic rape is not acceptable. What the hell is wrong with you people? Just because someone breaks the law does not mean that they are not human.
- meepus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35@pleasejustdie:
Legal is not right. Illegal is not wrong. Law is not Justice.
You want my whole story? I wasn't going to be detailed because I wanted to stay relevant, but here's the deal: I was 19 at the time and unable to rent a hotel room, and I was driving with my little brother who was 16 at the time. We were heading to Rockville, MD from Nashville, TN, and we weren't old enough and didn't have enough money to find a hotel to stay the night at. My brother was recently licensed, but had never driven on the highway before, and he was scared to do it. My brother refused to take a turn at driving. So, faced with a long drive and nowhere or way to spend the night somewhere without being a vagrant, I did a little mental math and figured out that if I drove a certain amount over the speed limit consistently, we'd be able to get home before I was physically exhausted. I signaled every lane change, I gave people suitable following distance considering the speed I was at, and whenever we encountered denser traffic I slowed down so that I'd be able to maneuver around cars safely. That night, in Virginia around Manassas, I got tagged by a state trooper as going a solid 50 miles per hour over the speed limit. I was ticketed, went to court, told my story to the judge, and she gave me two nights and days in jail. I was not simply in a small cell: I went into the general population section of the jail. Thankfully, I was rooming with the work force. The work force guys at that jail were people who exhibited good behavior and as a result were allowed to make wages assisting with the upkeep of the facility. They were kind, god-fearing men, and I am thankful that I had the good fortune to be placed with them. Other parts of the jail were not nearly as friendly.
I don't give a ***** if you were a prison guard for 50 years: that doesn't give you the right to claim that I'm dishonest just because my beliefs and my story don't sit well with your barbaric views of how society should be run. You're a part of the problem.
@Pichu0102:
You're obviously a heartless man-hating feminist. I'm a man, and I care if other men rape, and I care if other men are raped. I know that I never would do such a thing. It seems that someone must have done something to make you feel this way, but please don't discount every single man simply for the actions of a specific type of men. To think in such a way only furthers a centuries-old cycle of violence and disrespect. Don't be a part of the problem.
@everyone:
Driving fast is victimless unless you cause an accident. Look at the Autobahn. Fast driving is not necessarily going to cause a rash of death and destruction. I drive fast, and I've never been in a collision. Ever. I've been driving for 5 years. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30So, in most people's morality here, 3 DUI = dozens of rapes. That's great. Where do you keep your daughter?
- LesterWallace, on 10/12/2007, -58/+85> if you endanger people's lives like that you deserve what you get.
>You don't have a problem with state sanctioned mass rapings? This isn't just happening to one person, it's throughout the entire institution. I don't care what someone has done, this is not the action of a civilized nation.
In my opinion, true on both counts. 3 DUIs? You'd think you would have learned your lesson. I know a guy who had a bunch of DUIs, and on the last one he fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the center line, hit someone head-on and killed him. The guy he killed was going to work. The guy he killed had a wife and child. Now he's dead and they have to live with that. The guy I knew is now in prison for it. And we're supposed to feel bad that someone who did THAT might be raped in prison? Now don't get me wrong, the raping is horrible and certainly nothing to be condoned. But what are prison officials supposed to do about it? You can't watch everyone all the time. You get a cellmate that wants to rape you? You're in trouble, but you're in PRISON. This is not like college where you can request a new roomie. You lost a lot of rights, and you did something to get yourself there. But look, it's not that hard to stay out of prison. Don't break the law. I mean really, think about it. How much of a degenerate do you have to be to get put into PRISON? Would you feel as sorry for this guy if he had killed someone? Like I said, I don't think people SHOULD be raped in prison. But I have a real hard time feeling compassion for people who got themselves into prison by breaking laws and committing serious crimes. Not to mention doing it over and over, (3 DUIs), and knowing full well what the consequences are. Then again, they don't tell you that on your 3rd DUI you will be raped, but shouldn't the threat of prison be enough? Apparently not for some people. - mickeyknoxxx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30"Getting locked up to get ***** in the ass by Leroy is not going to make you a happy and well adjusted citizen when you get out."
Hell, the food alone will make you miserable. - clearzen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28I will probably get dugg down for this but I have a couple of friends that have been in prison. Things like this do happen but it is not the norm. Believe it or not there are openly gay men in prison that will willingly give out sexual service for food, smokes, drugs or whatever they want to trade. Usually if rape occurs it is because of retaliation inside a group or gang. Or if someone has been convicted of a sex crime they are *much* more likely to receive this kind of treatment. But to all those that seem to be encouraging the actions of animalistic degenerates, perhaps you need to spend a couple months in a situation where you could be forcibly raped at any time for and then talk to me.
- cam0man, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30all those criticizing this guy, you don't know the case and don't be so quick to chastise him. You know that all states have different standards for DUIs.
The DUI system is ***** up to say the least. Some states say .08, some say .1, the difference of just a drink or two. This could have 3 DUIs from a state that's anal about their drunk driving laws, where as if he was in any other state he would still be cool to drive. DUIs based on Breathalyzers open a whole other can of worms because they don't take into account mental impairment. Studies have shown that novice drinkers show an impairment of about 80% when just above the legal limit, seasoned drinkers only reach an impairment of 20%. Sounds like a pretty horrible scale for DUIs.
Don't forget how many people are killed by careless driving that has no substances involved at all. Drunk driving is a serious issue, but people are getting jailed based on nonsceintific reasoning and it's ridiculous.
The fact of the matter is that the prison system is designed to rehabilitate prisons and keep them away from the general population. It's cruel and unusual punishment to let them get gangbanged and offer no help except telling them to find someone to regularly get assraped by who will protect them. The prison system is ***** up and that article is disturbing. Show some human compassion and just let this guy serve his time. Part of his sentence wasn't 'contract the AIDs virus and get your life totally *****'. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26I did digg up comments above about, 3rd offense, he deserves it, no sympathy etc. BUT, as I read the dudes letter, I imagined myself in his shoes.... Death would be something I lived for.
This dude is a ***** up, 3rd dui offense? I'm sure he has put many lives in danger each time he drove drunk, and it was more than 3. He only got caught 3 times. Anyways. Locking him up for a long time is deserved punishment, but the rape is something no one deserves.
I'm sure there are many prisoners that are in prison for possession of marijuana, or other simlarly "harmless" offenses. They get raped just like the dui offender does.
We pay lots of money for prisons, you'd think they could at least install cameras and take care of those guilty of prison rape. This ***** is ruining lives. How do you go home to your wife and kids after getting repeatedly ass raped? I'm rambling, only because I don't know how to get my point across clearly. I'm sure some of you get where I'm coming from, and feel the same. - ussoldier, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25I've been to prison, and I won my appeal. So I can speak with some authority on this from experience.
IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO PRISON, you can get off your f*ing high horse, because you have no f**king clue. You're so full of sanctimonious self righteous ***** its disgusting. Wait until you get falsely accused of a crime, thrown into the psycho nightmare that is prison, and have to fight your way out kicking and screaming. Yes, it will happen to you, in a New York minute, out of the blue. It will be like a tornado touching down out of nowhere, you won't see it coming. Suddenly where you happen to be standing, will suddenly become the wrong place and the wrong time. In my case I wasn't even there, it was when some mom jumped on her little girl about wearing her clothes funny while they both naked in the bathtub together. The girl blamed it on me, who had absolutely nothing to do with but had been in the house earlier, and people went ballistic, and next thing I know I find myself and my family with jaws dropping, having been convicted of child molestation with a 10+ year sentence. Which as far as I'm concerned, is a death sentence. Yeah, sure, you can point out the facts, step by step all the way. Good f**king luck. All the jury has to hear is the words "child molestation" and their faces drop in a death look, and you're dead meat, no matter corny and ridiculous the whole story is, or that you have evidence to the contrary.
Don't think it can happen to you. Maybe you'll be driving home from work one day, lean over to take a bite out of a Big Mac you just bought, or a cell phone call, and some idiot kid pedals his bike out in front of you. Man slaughter, 20 years. Maybe your dog gets loose and mangles somebody. Maybe, just maybe, somebody breaks into your house at night, and you grab your gun, and shoot them in terror trying to protect your family, but because they turn around outside your door, its now murder. Maybe you see someone at a subway station forget their briefcase, and you chase after them to do a good deed and return it, only to get busted by some FBI agents because it contains a bomb in it and you ran with it. Or maybe you get tackled by ATF agents on a UGA campus, because you're dressed as a Ninja jogging coming back from a costume party.
Weird ***** happens, and suddenly, you will find yourself, thrown into the rings of Dante's hell.
Not only do you have to prove you are innocent, you have to find some technicality, and you have to do it all when you are being tortured in the most hellish of circumstances, where there is constant noise, constant sleep deprivation, constant starvation because prison food is crap, and constant interrupts from the military drill ***** that goes on 24/7 counting you all the time or working a detail. It is damn near impossible to concentrate and think under such conditions, let alone write an appeal, even with your geek quotient intelligence, which you will find rapidly deteriorating under prison circumstances.
I got lucky, I ended up in a relatively 'safe' (laughs) prison, though it was still dangerous as hell because somehow I ended up in the worst area of it. I was smart enough not to tell people what my case was about, otherwise I probably would of been cut the hell up just for the Scarlett Letter A that had been unjustly branded on me. Try explaining that to the ocean of morons in prison though, who are deadbeat dad's the lot of them and feel like they can some how make up for that inadequacy by becoming vigilante and beating up on "child molester"... let alone one cursing and swearing all the time he is Innocent.
Oh just remembering it all, I want to give this whole damn country the biggest flipping bird I can. I swear, it was so long ago, and I'm still furious about it today.
As far as prison rape goes, and prison fights, most of that happens between people who are openly gay, either butch or girlfriend. If you ARE not gay, and able to at least make some friends and stand up for yourself a little, you don't have to worry about being targeted for rape. You got to be willing to fight though if you are, but mostly the perceived violence in prison comes from people trying to intimidate you, chump you off because you come across as "weak". And let me tell you, every geek who reads this forum, would in prison come across as "weak". You're not street smart. I sure as hell wasn't.
I had two roommates in a row who were openly butch gay, and I was hardcore straight, and always at odds with them. Its not fun to be locked in a concrete box with a flaming butch thug who keeps his girlfriend in the room all the time doing laundry, and when your room becomes the gay central hangout of your entire pod. Its uncomfortable and nightmarish in an Orwellian sense.
I have never commit ed a crime in my life, outside of maybe speeding a little bit, which I think everyone does when the roads are wide open and you need to be somewhere and are late.
Let me tell you, when you get falsely accused of child molestation, and not a damn person in the world stands up to defend you, f**k your lawyer, who isn't worth s**t, I tell you what, you call me. You call me. You're going to want to have me stand in front of the police state alone with my clenched fist and fight like a mother for your defense. Suddenly I'm going to become your best and only friend, and the only thing standing between you and hell. I will tear them apart like a mongoose after a cobra. They want to go talking ***** about you who's done nothing, when blood runs red all over their hands from a long history of violent oppression, assassination, waring, imprisonment, and torture for profit. Lets rock.
If you ever, ever get so lucky as to be on a jury, you need to look up the wikipedia entry for JURY NULLIFICATION, and practice it hardcore. Because you're not going to get the facts in a trial. You're going to get a distorted painted picture of the defendant from a prose cuter who has a master's degree in painting people out to be criminals. And a defendant who might as well be you, defended by a public defender neophyte who has no clue how to even fight a parking ticket. - TokenDiggChick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@baalzebub,
while I'm not inclined to have tons of sympathy for a multiple DUI offender, I am concerned that Roscoe T. Rapist develops a taste for it and when he's let out of the big house, decides my brother/son/friend is just his type.
And rape is never ok, no matter who the victim. - diggernaught, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23The state should be charged for every inccident of rape that has occured UNDER THIER WATCH. They are accessory to it. The thought of those who say serves you right or think this is just don't realize that these people get out and can be wacko - and hurt or kill others as they have been. Or criminal system is screwd and it's self serving and only wants to grow. A very bad thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25What is disturbing, besides the actual story, is that in some ways the folks cheering it on and saying he deserves it are using a very similar frame of thinking as some of the Islamic radicals who insanely think it's ok to rape a woman if she dresses like a whore.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Yeah allowing someone to contract aids because they are a criminal is cruel and unusual punishment.
- Eleo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I wonder how people who are saying "he deserved it" would feel if this person were their sibling or child. Would they still be rooting for his emotional, physical, and sexual abuse?
- BGFeltenink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19All your comments are anti-male. In my life I've met women that were far more willing to screw over a fellow human being than women. Yet I do not consider all women to be the same. Since you are unable to contribute to the discussion, unable to consider that not all men are the same, and unable to put your prejudices aside I'm going to do to you what I do to ever racist, bigot, and irrational hate-monger. I'm going to block you. Have a nice day.
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22The prison system is doing more harm than good. An individual is likelier to commit a greater crime after entering prison than before.
As of right now the prison system serves only to remove an individual from society for a period of time, then releasing him after that period has expired. Prisoners aren't given counseling to fix the problems that put them in there. The forensic psychologics in prisons only help the inmates coping with conditions of prisons, not anything else. Our current system would work if the inmates stayed in prison for life, but the problems continue once they're released.
Individuals sentenced to prison deserve a punishment, but it should be a punishment that was democratically decided as just and fair. Rape in prison is neither just nor fair. What kind of people does this turn them in to once they're release? Are we putting people in prison to create monsters once they're released? - mburgoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I had a friend of a friend who was sentenced for 2 weeks on a misdemeanor drug charge. The judge was trying to make an example that even the smallest drug offenses would not go without punishment. After 2 days in prison the individual was raped. 2 months later, he tested positive for HIV. Now I am not defending criminals for what they may or may not have done... but to pretty much flush someone's life any for one mistake... it's inexcusable to me. It really bothers me that our country is more concerned about fighting someone else's civil war... when we turn our backs (and even joke about) problems that our country faces from within.
- newworldodor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21You people are ridiculous. Nobody deserves this kind of treatment for a DUI. Remember you can get a DUI for as little as 2 drinks, so it doesn't mean he was driving around totally trashed. Yes he is a dumbass for getting in trouble 3 times, doesn't mean he's a hardened criminal. The legal system is a joke, you know the right people and you'll never get in trouble. We all know w really belongs in this place, for all the crimes he has committed.
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18NO ONE DESERVES TO BE RAPED BY ANYONE .... EVER. ANYONE WHO SAYS DIFFERENT IS A ***** ANIMAL. These Barbarians deserve to have the entirety of the genitalia surgically removed. That would stop it fast.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20"Letter from A.H. to Human Rights Watch, August 30, 1996."
So this letter was from a decade ago, is it stil relevant? Has nothing been done in 10 years? - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I was listening to an interview with Mark Wahlberg (Marky Mark) on NPR, and he said that early on in life he had been sent to prison for something or other, and he had heard the horror stories and started working out to get into shape before going.
If you're gonna get sent to prison, I suggest getting buff as fast as you can, as your life - and your butthole - may depend on it.
to quote my favorite Emo Phillips line: "Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." - cookdsc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I know a guy that had to go on trial because he was involved in a car wreck that killed a girl. she was stopped in the center lane in the middle of the highway. A delivery truck was in front of him, it swerved, he hit the car and the girl died. He was not speeding, not drinking, etc.. Countless witnesses verified his story at the scene and at the trial. The jury came back with an innocent verdict (manslaughter) and on every other charge (wreck less endangerment, and something else?) and the judge told the jury "You have to convict him on something, he needs to learn a lesson." He did like 3 weeks in a local jail.
This could be you, people get sent to jail for dumb ***** all the time in this country. This is an obvious problem that needs to be addressed. The punishment needs to fit the crime and I don't think being beaten and raped repeatedly (keep in mind you and I are paying the medical bills) is a just punishment. -
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