“We spend a fair amount of time talking about detainee treatment and Guantanamo. But there is no greater, or more common, human rights abuses in America than those occurring in our overcrowded, constantly expanding, jails.”
Ezra Klein writes about prison rape here and here.
Prison Fellowship has a wing, Justice Fellowship, that addresses this and other justice/incarceration issues.
Here’s the site for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.
posted Feb 12, 2007, 1:04pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
He’s got an excellent point - the way we treat prisoners in this country is profoundly immoral, in addition to being a profoundly bad idea. We have higher rates of incarceration and recidivism, and the conditions are worse than in any European countr. yAnd California’s worse than most states - CYA is a mess and so is the state prison system + plus we’ve got the draconian three strikes law. We keep doing the same thing, it keeps not working, and yet being “soft on crime” is the kiss of death for a polician…
Man, scary stuff. I heard someone this weekend refer to prison as ‘gladiator school’ - no wonder why we have so many problems with folks coming out. Thanks for sharing.
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…and the human rights abuse isnt limited to physical violence. The very nature of incarceration eats at your humanity by breaking your sense of self down. f the police and their money making machines.