Justice: Prisons to step up anti-rape efforts

AP ^ | May 17, 2012 | By JESSE J. HOLLAND

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Obama administration ordered federal, state and local officials Thursday to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape as it issued mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations designed to reduce the number of inmates who suffer sexual victimization at the hands of other prisoners and prison staff.

The regulations were announced only minutes after the Justice Department unveiled a new survey of former state and local prisoners that showed that almost one in every 10 reported at least one incident of sexual victimization by prison staff or other inmates.

The regulations are immediately binding on federal prisons. States that don't fall in line face a loss of 5 percent of their Justice Department prison money.

The new regulations would require detention facilities to incorporate the "unique vulnerabilities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and gender nonconforming inmates into training and screening protocols."

[mass55th]

"Prison should be all solitary confinement, no TVs, no Radios....no gyms or other areas for prisoners to congregate."

I agree, however, the courts have ruled otherwise.

[Popman]

——— to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape-——

Glad to see something I agree with the Obama administration about....I mean it’s bound to happen at least once in 3 1/2

[MinorityRepublican]

Exactly. If there can be a camera at every traffic light, there can be one in every room and hallway of a prison. Oh, but wait. There is no revenue to be gained from that.

The government will save a lot of money if we execute prisoners decades before they're due out of jail. We'll need to modify things a bit, if there's evidence and it's right there on the videotape, then it should be easy to execute a prisoner for raping someone in jail.

[Sherman Logan]

Prisons should be highly uncomfortable and totally safe.

[Sherman Logan]

Prisons should be highly uncomfortable and totally safe.

[Ramius]

I completely agree.

I wonder if a better approach to prison wouldn’t be a solution that is all solitary-confinement. Solitary is a harder time... And shorter times, if in solitary, might be more effective than what we do now.

[Trod Upon]

I think it’s just fine for rapists and child molesters, in fact I think it probably ought to be sanctioned against those particular inmates, but I do oppose it otherwise.

[Mark17]

Imagine the prison ratio..

On grave shift, 1,200 to 3.

[Arthur McGowan]

The Quakers tried that. The idea was to meditate on their sins, and repent. So many prisoners went insane, the concept was scrapped.