Prison life......

ykt0di9url7bc3

Stop Prison Rape
Stephen Donaldson is the founder of Stop Prison Rape. He is also a victim.
In 1973, a warden suspected that the jailed Quaker peace activist was writing an expose of brutal prison conditions.

So he transferred him to a cellblock of violent offenders, where he was raped 60 times in a two-day period

Fu<k he's got my support

Stop Prisioner Rape

mike65

Sounds appalling, I was going to make a crack about Liam Lawless but I wont...

Mike.

-ADREN-

Holy ****..

60 .. in 2 days ...

omf .. tought u be dead after somthing like that jesus...

Lord have mercy

swiss

The issue of crime and punishment is one that has plagued the human social system for as long as civilisation has existed. How we treat those who err, and what steps we take to ensure that they do not err again defines us as a people and as a society.

Our primeval urge has always been to inflict pain and suffering on those who cross the path of what is deemed 'illegal' by the populace of the day. Beatings, mutilations and public shaming has always been the order of the day, and continues to be so in many Eastern cultures.

We, in more 'civilised' western cultures prefer to think that we have a more evolved sensibility in relation to societies' malcontents. We place them in specialised institutions, where they can receive proper 'care' and attention in an attempt to rehabilitate them and make them fit to re-enter society as a productive and well adjusted human being.

So much for the fairy tale.... but as Morgan Freeman said in The Shawshank Redemption prison is no fairy tale world.

Issues such as the rape of prisoners, the use of hard drugs, and the corruption and debilitation of prisoners who enter those cruel walls are well documented. As a society, we can turn a blind eye to the abject failure that our prison system has become. After all - what is out of sight is often out of mind.

What we cannot ignore, however, is the hardened criminal element that arises due to our failures to deal with the problems in an efficient, successful and humanitarian way. A vicious cycle is hence begun, where hardened criminals who were once petty criminals are placed back once again into captivity - where s/he can corrupt a new generation of inmates.

What solution can therefore be found to this problem? To find one that can satisfy mankind's lust for revenge and the dictates of reason and fair play is indeed one that is difficult to find. It is easy to give well worn sound - bites such as 'suit the punishment to the crime', but even such rusty phrases have some basis in merit.

Why should drug addicts be pushed into overcrowded cells full of other addicts and pushers ready to feed their habit furthur? Would not a rigorous detox programme provide sufficient deterrent to any re-offending as well as 'clean up' the individual in question.

I do agree that 'tough love' often has to be shown to those who do wrong, to edge them towards the straight and narrow when they err. However to do so in the full knowledge that it will make no difference is frankly purely criminal.

ykt0di9url7bc3

Do you support the guy or not!

swiss

Yes.

Don't think I should qualify that

Neil3030

I dont think i have the words in my vocabulary to articulate the disust i am feeling. One has to wonder whether the warden had an influence on the amount of times he was raped. I wouldn't say it would be the first time that those cowards have got cons to do their dirty work for them.

The man has my support.