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Why don't prisons get their asses sued off for allowing inmates to be raped?
by MarkMc 15y ago
Why don't prisons get their asses sued off for allowing inmates to be raped?
- gwern 15y ago'Sovereign immunity' (states are liable only for what they choose to allow themselves to be liable for), waivers for private prisoners, and probably some sort of 'reasonable precaution' clause in liability legislation would be where I would start looking for the reason why not.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoI would file on civil rights grounds, that incarceration where rape is known to be highly likely amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
- scott_w 15y agoHowever, that would fall into the trap mentioned in the article: that it's not unusual.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoUnusual doesn't mean "uncommon" in the context of the constitution.
- vacri 15y agoRape is an unusual form of punishment in that the courts never ask for it to be applied.
- icebraining 15y agoIf life in prison for a first-time nonviolent drug offense was not considered cruel and unusual, what luck would you have?
- gwern 15y ago* for private prisons
- samstave 15y agoSeriously, there is no accountability ZERO. If there is any industry, aside from government, that need disruption, it is prison.
- godDLL 15y agoLet's take that. What a prison startup would look like?
- ktizo 15y agoWell, your parents' garage might get pretty crowded.
- samstave 15y agoHeh - I didnt mean it like that - unfortunately with Prison, you have to attack it from the political side.
- godDLL 15y agoNot necessarily. What if you could make inmates on the outside somehow useful? That would reduce prison population, &c Take a look http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3696940 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3696940