re: Rick Perry says Texas won't take action to curb prison rape

Pathetic. He should he ashamed.

Curtailing prison rape would be offensive to homosexuals or those with those tendencies since that is all the raping that is going on.

We do not want to offend them and end up being called homophobic.


That, and they are "federal standards" so they are most likely bullshite that does nothing to alleviate the problem anyway.

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if 4% of women were raped in the preceeding year, there would be a national outrage, marches, etc.

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There are.

And prison rape is nothing to excuse. It just doesn't happen nearly as much as most people think it does.

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No one wants to call prison rape what it really is, a racial issue!

"Past studies have documented the prevalence of black on white sexual aggression in prison.(213) These findings are further confirmed by Human Rights Watch's own research. Overall, our correspondence and interviews with white, black, and Hispanic inmates convince us that white inmates are disproportionately targeted for abuse.(214) Although many whites reported being raped by white inmates, black on white abuse appears to be more common. To a much lesser extent, non-Hispanic whites also reported being victimized by Hispanic inmates.

Other than sexual abuse of white inmates by African Americans, and, less frequently, Hispanics, interracial and interethnic sexual abuse appears to be much less common than sexual abuse committed by persons of one race or ethnicity against members of that same group. In other words, African Americans typically face sexual abuse at the hands of other African Americans, and Hispanics at the hands of other Hispanics. Some inmates told Human Rights Watch that this pattern reflected an inmate rule, one that was strictly enforced: "only a black can turn out [rape] a black, and only a chicano can turn out a chicano."(215) Breaking this rule by sexually abusing someone of another race or ethnicity, with the exception of a white inmate, could lead to racial or ethnic unrest, as other members of the victim's group would retaliate against the perpetrator's group. A Texas inmate explained, for example: "The Mexicans--indeed all latinos, nobody outside their race can 'check' one without permission from the town that, that person is from. If a black dude were to check a mexican w/out such permission & the mexican stays down & fights back, a riot will take place."(216)"

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It just doesn't happen nearly as much as most people think it does.

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It all depends on where.

Orleans Parish Prison or Angola...?

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That's about all that's left about prison that actually serves as a deterrent.

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Ahhh, such ignorance. I'm sure you've got loads of experience about what life is like in prison.

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So you trust the government to castrate people but not to manage a food stamp program?

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Absolutely. They're good at this!