Rape

[snuffbox]

No, tobacco sales is not among my jobs. I don't personally smoke either tobbacco or marijuana anymore, I just don't think it should be an aspect of govt to dictate that one of them can't be used. The facts of marijuana's benefits vs. tobacco weighs heavily on this opinion.

 

You might be surprised by how many doctors agree with me as well.

[EricMM]

And thus two of the main reasons why this will never happen are raised:

 

The painkiller people and the tobacco people (and the alcohol people) have waaaaaaaaaaaaay to big a lobby (let alone a legal lobby) to ever give the opposition a chance.

 

Remember, to outlaw MJ, they had to prove that it was at least as dangerous as machine guns. And they did so!

[snuffbox]

Those lobbies & the politicians needing to admit they were wrong are definitly the two biggest it may/will never be reformed, no matter how many doctors and law enforcement people say it should.

[Big Ol' Smitty]

Little more here:

 

Tom Cahill, a former president of Stop Prisoner Rape, was arrested during the Vietnam War for civil disobedience. An ideologically unsympathetic jailer put him in a cell with known sexual predators, telling them he was a child molester, and that if they "took care of him" they'd get extra rations of jello. For the next twenty-four hours Tom was gang-raped. He has never fully recovered from this.

 

To some extent, stopping prisoner rape is simply an issue of better prison management. In facilities where the chief official cares about it, and ensures that his or her subordinates take it seriously, rates of sexual abuse go down dramatically. This is accomplished by, for example, providing vulnerable inmates with nonpunitive protective housing at their request, and establishing confidential complaint systems that encourage inmates to report sexual violence without increasing their risk of future assault or retaliation, from any party.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20155

[theintensifier]

Little more here:

 

Tom Cahill, a former president of Stop Prisoner Rape, was arrested during the Vietnam War for civil disobedience. An ideologically unsympathetic jailer put him in a cell with known sexual predators, telling them he was a child molester, and that if they "took care of him" they'd get extra rations of jello. For the next twenty-four hours Tom was gang-raped. He has never fully recovered from this.

 

To some extent, stopping prisoner rape is simply an issue of better prison management. In facilities where the chief official cares about it, and ensures that his or her subordinates take it seriously, rates of sexual abuse go down dramatically. This is accomplished by, for example, providing vulnerable inmates with nonpunitive protective housing at their request, and establishing confidential complaint systems that encourage inmates to report sexual violence without increasing their risk of future assault or retaliation, from any party.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20155

That certainly sucks that Mr. Cahill was unmercifully raped by a gang of inmates. Its kind of funny in a disturbing kind of way what the guard apparently said. I can only imagine the look on poor Tom's face when he heard the guard say that.

 

Overall, the guards don't give two shits about the inmates, or their problems (mentally or physically) and I cannot sit here and say they should care. Until you walk a mile in their shoes, its always easier to say what should be done and how things should be handled. Prison rape is very unfortunate, and horrible even for the worst individuals, but its a uncurable "disease" within the prison system.

[EricMM]

You know what would be "kinda funny"?

 

If you got prison raped

[theintensifier]

You're just saying that cause I said you should be Horsemen attacked.

 

Nice "flame" though, almost bothered me.

[Boon]

You know what would be "kinda funny"?

 

If you got prison raped

...Are you offering extra Jell-O ?