National Catholic Review Comments on Prison Rape

	posted by Nightmist on Sunday September 16, @08:30PM from the news/male-rape dept.
	This commentary on prison rape by the National Catholic Review may represent the first time media has acknowledged the existence of Human Rights Watch's recent report on male rape in prisons. The author of the commentary is horrified by the report. By allowing rape to go on, the “correctional” authorities ensure that prisoner violence is contained within the cells. Frustrated prisoners are permitted to release aggression on condition that they direct it against other inmates, not the authorities. That the victims, who comprise as much as 20 percent of 2 million inmates held in U.S. prisons and jail, live in perpetual fear is also conducive to control. Divide and conquer is the name of the game; the fact that it amounts to horrendous violations of human rights does not really interest the prison authorities.

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nightmist -- prison rape by remarksman on Sunday September 16, @11:37PM EST (#1) (User #241 Info) slaves bought and sold, traded, sexually and physically abused -- all under approval of both the authorities and implicit collective consent mass incarceration of males for "crimes against the public conscience" -- essentially political prisoners ... men who, by the way, make the most delectable victims once inside all over america they scream in the night ... and finally even the foundations of the towers resonate, and won't stand for it an instant longer nor can we depend upon human rights "watchdog" groups to monitor and protest this torture -- politically correct torture does not offend these avatars of raised consciousness (see my essay, "Amnesty International Ignores Torture" at www.geocities.org/remarksman) may this savage, brutal, psychotic hour in the american journey end quickly ray remark

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