Essay On Prison Rape

Sexual behavior inside a prison is both forced and encouraged by prison subgroups. Prison homosexuality depends on substantial degrees on the innocence of younger inmates experiencing prison life for the first time. Often times older prisoners looking for homosexual relationships may at times grovel themselves by offering several things such as, food, money, drugs, protection, or cigarettes. At some point in the future those “loans” will be called in which demand sexual favors in return as a payoff. There is an inmate code that requires the repayment of favors, the inmate that tries to resist will or may find himself face to face very quickly with the brutal force of inmate society. Prison rape generally involves physical assault, which represents

According to PREA (2003), the aggressors themselves have suffered much damage to their masculinity in the past and most do not consider themselves to be homosexuals. Victims’ who experience the sexual assault sometimes become violent, attacking and may even kill the person who had raped them. The HRT (Human Rights Watch) researchers found that prisoners “that fit any part of the following description” are more than likely to become victims of rape: physically weak, young, small in size, first offender, gay, white, being unassertive, intellectual, shy, unaggressive, not street-smart, possessing ‘feminine’ characteristics such as long hair or a high pitch voice, or ‘passive’; or have been convicted of a sexual offense against a minor. The researchers had also found that prisoners with several overlapping characteristics are highly likely more than other prisoners to be targeted for abuse. The report concluded that in order to reduce prison rape, prison officials should take considerably more care in matching inmates together, and that, as a general rule, avoiding

Rarely can the victims pursue an individual personal injury claim against the perpetrator. The problems with these suits is the difficulty finding attorneys willing to take these cases against other defendants who are presumably judgement-proof. The victim at often times relies on the corrections officers to monitor the incidence of assault and to intervene when an assault may be in progress or about to occur. Sexual assaults of this nature are rarely taken place in open view of the officers to prevent them from being able to intervene. This reliance does make two other critical assumptions that may not necessarily be true; the guard does want to intervene to prevent the assault from happening, and the guard is not himself the perpetrator of the offense. Researchers have often noted that rather than viewing the prison rape as a crime that requires intervention, prison staff members at times see rape as a means of deterring other forms of violence in prison. The second assertion, the corrections officers may offer the victim the best protection, assuming that the officer is not the perpetrator of the