Comments on: Prison Rape: How a difficult challenge is being addressed

By: tyler_derden

tyler_derden — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:12:40 +0000

Prison is an entirely different, ultra macho subulture. When you walk into orientation, you are either predator or prey. The current residents can smell it. No matter what, you want to get acquainted with with your set - your race - right away and get the general low down. If you are white, you may have several options (Woods, Low Riders, etc.)

But don't approach the AB without an invitation. The AB is highly feared because they don't just try to hurt convicts - they set out to kill them. They also operate as a kind of justice system within the system, ensuring that all of the child killers and rapists are well punished (guards don't get involved but don't prohibit it either). They somewhat look out for the non AB whites that have heart and can hold their own, and the AB would probably jump in on a sneak gang attack by blacks on such a non AB if the situation arose.

If you're not a predator yet don't try to fake it - just try to learn the ropes and don't take any favors or loans from anyone because they will come back to haunt you when they come to collect. Try to avoid areas where you could be pushed out of sight or jumped. If they get you, dont make it easy so they will try somebody else next time instead of you. You shouldn't trust someone in prison until you have nown them for several years.

If you did the crime, man up and do the time. You are now living with a cell block full of criminals, unmediated psychopaths, and sexual daviants. It's time find your inner toughness, take care of your own, and watch your back.

If you could stop prison rape you could greatly reduce violent crime. Read "Monkey off My Back" by Jack Brown. He describes his lifelong staty in the prison system and how he met Clyde Barrow in the prison where he was raped. Clyde had been a petty car theif before that experience, but when he got out he bacame quite violent and killed several police and correctional officers.

By: runasim

runasim — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:03:41 +0000

Part of the 'lock em up and throw away the key' prevailing mentality is to also forget about what happens in prisons and ignore what happens when prisoners are released.

Prison rape has become the subject of jokes, one of the few ways it's talked about at all. Unless a prisoner escapes, or there is a riot, our humungus prison system may a well be on some distant planet, for the amount of atention it gets.

By: joe cell

joe cell — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:39:14 +0000

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By: DLS

DLS — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:34:11 +0000

From Papillon (the book, not the movie): “In Colombia it's twenty years or death, nothing else.” There's actually much to be said in favor of such a system where hard-core crimes and criminals are concerned.

By: Slamfu

Slamfu — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:37:46 +0000

The prison system is truly fucked up not just for the opportunity it fosters for prison rape, but also the fact that many gang leaders continue to function and operate out of prison. In Pelican Bay in CA the Mexican Mafia leadership is almost entirely behind bars yet continue to run drug operations and order hits from there. A few years ago there was an Aryan Brotherhood leader who was implicated in 44 separate murders including a federal judge. It should be noted he did this almost entirely from solitary confinement..

Men such as this are why I think we should keep the death penalty around. Jeffrey Dahmer was dangerous, but not once you locked him up. Men like these guys are just as dangerous on the inside as they are on the outside, prison does not protect society from them.