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Thursday 11 March 2010
The Way to Stop Prison Rape

When Laura Berry told the Arkansas corrections officer who had raped her that she thought she might be pregnant, he forced her, according to the commission’s findings, to drink turpentine and quinine, hoping that would induce an abortion. After Kenneth Young was raped at knifepoint by a cellmate in Pennsylvania, he flooded the cell to attract the attention of officers, and as punishment was put in a “dry cell” for ninety-six hours, with no access to running water, a shower, or a toilet—forced “to live in his own excrement,” as a court later put it. Alisha Brewer told our organization, JDI, that she was raped by three different corrections officers as a twenty-two-year-old prisoner in Kentucky; she reported the last two incidents, and was punished with more than four months of punitive segregation and loss of sixty days of good time on her sentence. Another prisoner who wrote to us, and who for obvious reasons prefers to remain anonymous, quoted the male officer who was abusing her: “Remember if you tell anyone anything, you’ll have to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life.” We get letters like this every day.

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    destroy all prisons
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    thecurvature: robot-heart-politics: azspot:
  6. jhermann reblogged this from azspot and added:
    One of the worst things about our country.
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  8. juliusseizure reblogged this from sexartandpolitics and added:
    HH thinks that prisoners totally have it easy. He’s a fucking dickhead sometimes. This is only one tiny part of the...
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    azspot: When Laura Berry told the Arkansas corrections officer who had raped her that she thought she might be pregnant,...
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    I think this qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment: sending a person into a correction system that is so infamous...
  11. sexartandpolitics reblogged this from thecurvature and added:
    But incarcerating them is not?
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  13. thecurvature reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    When juxtaposed against the above, this sentence from later in the article is particularly striking:
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