Inmate Alleges Forcible Sex

Wow.....there's some privatization at work!

INCARCERATING PEOPLE "FOR PROFIT" IS IN A WORD....WRONG!

Even if one does not ask or pretends not to see the rope and the flashing red flag draped around the philosophical question standing solemnly at attention in the middle of the room, it remains apparent that the mere presence of a private “for profit” driven prison business in our country undermines the U.S Constitution and subsequently the credibility of the American criminal justice system. In fact, until all private prisons in America have been abolished and outlawed, “the promise” of fairness and justice at every level of this country’s judicial system will remain unattainable. We must restore the principles and the vacant promise of our judicial system. Our government cannot continue to "job-out" its obligation and neglect its duty to the individuals confined in the correctional and rehabilitation facilities throughout this nation, nor can it ignore the will of the people that it was designed to serve and protect. There is urgent need for the good people of this country to emerge from the shadows of indifference, apathy, cynicism, fear, and those other dark places that we migrate to when we are overwhelmed by frustration and the loss of hope.

My hope is that you will support the National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons (NPSCTAPP) with a show of solidarity by signing "The Single Voice Petition"
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–Ahma Daeus
"Practicing Humanity Without A License"...

This is what the Prison Industrial Complex has given us. A little research will show just which companies are involved, including some that fill the cafeteria tables of our kids' schools.

... and still nobody buys a clue and stop male personnel from working with female inmates and vice versa. When is it finally going to dawn that these kind of horrific abuses of power will continue to happen as long as this situation continues?

And don't go yell "That's job discrimination!" (although it would be in any other country on this planet): there are plenty of male prisons for the male guards to work in and plenty of women's prisons for female guards to work in.

The government has the responsibility of keeping the people it incarcerates safe. You know how the saying goes: One can judge a nation by how it treats its prisoners. Oh boy, does the US of A still have a long way to go before it'll join the civilized world...

This story pains me on many levels...

First, what perchance 40 years ago would have been fictional soft porn in Penthouse Letters is now legal testimony in a federal court. In a concept derived from Oscar Wilde's aphorism "Life imitating art", we seem on some levels of society to have lost the concept of theoretical fantasy and instead juxtaposed it with a sense of entitlement and normalcy.

Second, and probably what causes this to linger longer in my irk-ness file, is that she too felt, at least up to a certain point, that this fantasy-come-reality bit was a good idea.

It is not the nature of "no means no" that I am contesting... it is the fact that the interweaving of moral fibers in this country has become so frayed and thin that a square of single ply industrial toilet paper has more strength and substance than the moral and ethical foundations of much of our nation today. What is considered normal behavior now, would have been appallingly unacceptable just two generations ago.

In my ever playing mental soundtrack of life inspired background music, I am reminded of a line to an old Cole Porter song that goes "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but Heaven knows, anything goes...". Good Lord, how have we fallen so far?

As an almost fourty-something, I have watched standards of upbringing plummet (does anyone remember finishing school? Cotillion? Methinks not...), manners, social skills, respect, codes of conduct, all becoming evolutionary fossils in a society bent on instant gratification and self pleasure.

My point, long and drawn out as it is, is that morally these two and countless others are lacking a basic foundational understanding of boundaries and moral code. Because of the inability on both of their parts to draw the line in the sand between right and wrong, the outcome of this story is vile, violent, and a textbook example of hindsight being 50/50.

We are an aping society: we mimic what we see. Parents and political leaders, as well as teachers, law enforcement, ministry, all need to take an active role in the upbringing of this and all generations to follow by demonstrating a higher code of conduct that what is prevalent today.

Art, in it's most graphic form, will always exist. It is simply up to us as a society to re draw that line in the sand that defines the difference between nurturing a healthy fantasy life and selfishly acting out of perversion to the detriment of others.

So moms, and dads, get your elbows of the table, don't chew with your mouth open, and darn it: get your hands out of the "cookie jar". Your kids are watching.

It's sad that there are sexual preditors in all walks of life, these guys that did this crime should be put in prison, alot of you are thinking so what it was just another convict but think again what gave those two animals the right to do that,and yet it happened, my heartfelt sympathy goes out to that poor women who had to endure such a horrible crime.The public must be made aware that these type of things are part of what goes on in the prison system without anyone being made to answer to them, and what the public thinks is that the prisoners have it made what a sad situation we have fallen into!!!!!

So far I think we're all in agreement about this, but I have to give an especially big "thumbs up" to Coryell who hits at the root of the problem--even if the comments Coryell make may not be "politically correct".

Yes, everyday manners are going out the window. We see it in the way our culture worships celebrities when they dump their spouses/kids to take up with other people, (Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas and Donald Trump come to mind) the way it worships gangsta rap's glorification of violence, hatred of women, etc.

There is a theory called the "broken window theory" which says that if a window is broken in a neighborhood and it doesn't get fixed, then pretty soon people stop caring about their neighborhood and then as the neighborhood get more run down, inevitably crime starts to rise. Yes, our culture is turning into a cesspool of aggressive drivers everywhere you go, drunk bratty college kids, (certainly there are many college student who don't fit this label) and a general sense of desensitization. We can talk about how "progressive" we are, but what good is a label when people don't treat each other with consideration?

Yes Coryell, while critics may point out that the sordid acts described here may boil down to individual evil, the fact remains that the everyday Emily Post standards of yesteryear are laughed at now as being passe and we wonder why the chickens are coming home to roost in form of the many problems we see happening and the overall sense of angst that people are often too much in a hurry to see has taken over their lives.

Well said Bill...

...and Pray4Justice, yes the man should be jailed and never allowed to work in a position of power over men or women.

It is said that power corrupts, but I think these types are in all walks of life. They are of both sexes and not always commiting sexual aggression. I think we only hear about the sensational "newsworthy" events.

These people can be a boss, a judge or clergy, a police officer, public figure, teacher, a mom or dad even a news paper employee or owner. The list goes on.

Positions of power enables these people to practice control over another and it is generally overlooked by others unless it is in the form of a blatent crime.

But the bottom line is not about the crime but where the desire to do such things to another derives. Changing that is the only way I see we can stop this.

Punishment will always be only a deterrent. But we must ask... How many times do these individuals make advances at captives (male or female) before they go this far?