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[blahthequah]

Justice Dept. conducts first prison rape report...and concludes prison rape is grossly underreported.  Well gee, considering that rape is one of the most underreported crimes to begin with, the additional stigma of male rape makes this terribly unsurprising.  Yet nonetheless disturbing.

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[sessiboy]

the prison rape elimination act will probably lead to much much more reporting and less substantiating...and not really any major change. it'll probably reduce guard on inmate rates (with training programs), but it would have to change supervisory culture and inmate management to make even a dent in inmate vs inmate rape. this PREA was free political capital (pricetag 40 mil) that allocated money to programs, i don't see anyone else touching the prison 'issue' with a larger pricetag. i mean with the NYTimes reporting the dangers of prison health care every couple months, states have yet to do anything. And in CA the state decided to ignore a judge's requirements to improve prison health -- the issue was not politically viable, no administrator in his/her right mind would touch it so they basically said it was impossible to fix...that and they want privatization i assume. so now the judiciary is managing the prison health system...sigh.

If they really wanted to fix the issue they'd allocate a lot more money and address prison violence by curbing privacy...cameras everywhere, constant oversite even in cells, and make failing to stop violence a possible grounds for termination. it would be easy, and it would work, and it would have an audit trail.

[blahthequah]

Well at you are able to admit that rape is a problem for men and women in the prison system and acknowledge that male rape is significant without dismissing female rape