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I do hope they resist. The US prison system is an abomination to human rights. Prisons should be safe places - the punishment should be the restriction of freed

• tptacek 16y ago
  Prison rape is absolutely a major problem in the UK as well. This seems like another red herring. Here's a very telling example: According to Shaw’s report, prisons are failing to conduct investigations. His comments are made in an official report into the case of “Mark”, a 21-year-old man with Asperger’s syndrome, learning difficulties and a history of self-harm, who was remanded to Altcourse prison in Liverpool in 2007. It was recommended that Mark, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, be remanded into a psychiatric unit, but there were no places available. Despite his vulnerable nature, he was placed on a wing with sex offenders and was allegedly raped by a cellmate who had attempted to assault him several weeks earlier. He attempted to throw himself off a prison landing shortly after the alleged incident and is now in a psychiatric unit.
  • jeremyjarvis 16y ago
    Thanks for bringing this to my attention, gonna look into it. Agreed, shocking - but much less common than in US.
    • tptacek 16y ago
      Wait, what? How do you know that? Are you making an inference about the absolute numbers, or the per-capita? And how does it apply to McKinnon, who isn't going to end up in high-security prison anyways? (Note that McKinnon is destined for federal prison, not state prison. With very few exceptions, incidence of sexual misconduct in Federal prisons is much lower than in State prisons, which themselves house the majority of violent offenders).