Human Rights Watch Documents U.S. Prison Rape

	posted by Scott on Wednesday May 16, @10:52AM from the news dept.
	The organization Human Rights Watch has completed a three-year study on the prison rape of men, resulting in a 378 page report on the topic. You can view the materials here. There are video interviews with some of the 200+ prisoners who took part in the study. This is by far the most comprehensive study I've ever seen on the topic of prison rape, and by including the accounts and recordings of inmate interviews, this site forces you to confront the personal reality of this issue. If you are doing research in this area, this is one report you must see.

	Source: Human Rights Watch Title: No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons Author: Human Rights Watch Date: April 2001

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Finally (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Wednesday May 16, @12:35PM EST (#1) After decades of government neglect of this issue we now have something more solid than projections from an exit evaluation at a California prison (showing 14% of prisoners were raped or threatened with rape in prison). Thank you Human Rights Watch.

An important step, but perhaps too strident (Score:1) by BusterB on Thursday May 17, @04:03PM EST (#2) (User #94 Info) http://themenscenter.com/busterb/ This report is long overdue and badly needed. Too bad the recommendations (at the end of the summary) include such non-starters as providing "sensitivity training on race" to prison guards so that they can stop inmates from calling each other names, or using "racial slurs" as the report puts it. Why, at the end of an exhaustive report exposing what everyone knows to be true but won't talk about, would anyone state recommendations that go far beyond solving the immediate problem? This raises the risk that the entire prison system will write this report off as being the work of a bunch of politically correct PTA members and shelve it. I firmly believe that we should come down hard on prison rape. If I were ever incarcerated for some crime (such as being a "deadbeat dad"--and we all know how easy it is to be tarred with that brush), I would want to feel that I was at least safe from being anally raped by some drug-using murderer. On the other hand, pretending that we can turn the prisons--which are, after all filled with the most bad-ass MFs in our society--into polite societies of well-behaved men is so stupid that it boggles my mind. Stop inmates from raping each other, yes! Stop them from calling each other names? Not likely.

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