Thursday, June 23, 2011

Adding insult to injury

Not only do we imprison more people than any other nation in the world, we also facilitate over 200,000 rapes of said inmates every year.  And most of the raping is done - you guessed it - by our 'public servants'.  Remember, they are not on our side, they're on their side.  Our nation's government is so brutal.


The U.S. Department of Justice recently released its first-ever estimate of the number of inmates who are sexually abused in America each year. According to the department’s data, which are based on nationwide surveys of prison and jail inmates as well as young people in juvenile detention centers, at least 216,600 inmates were victimized in 2008 alone. Contrary to popular belief, most of the perpetrators were not other prisoners but staff members—corrections officials whose job it is to keep inmates safe. On average, each victim was abused between three and five times over the course of the year. The vast majority were too fearful of reprisals to seek help or file a formal complaint.

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