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Here’s something I never understood. How come when you go to prison you’re guaranteed to get raped? This seems to be the set state of affairs for anyone entering our criminal rehabilitation system in America.
Let’s say you’re a junkie in California and you get your third strike for crack possession with intent to distribute, or you get caught in Atlanta loading flat-screens into your Tacoma off the back of a flatbed truck behind Best Buy. Now bad enough that you’re just trying to feed your kids or fulfill your dream of having a 50” plasma in every closet in your house and the man has to come in and rip the needle off the party record.
But anyway you smoked some crack or you stole some merchandise and you get convicted of the crime. Now you have to spend the next, say, ten years in state prison. That’s the punishment. You smoked something they didn’t want you to or took a few things that didn’t belong to you just because you like to watch the Food Network while you pick out ties, and they put you in a cage for ten years. Putting aside the rationale of reprimanding or rehabilitating people by putting them in cages, that’s the punishment. I don’t understand why on top of that you need this auxiliary punishment of being raped every day.
Now if you asked a prison guard or warden to a person, they wouldn’t list rape as part of the all inclusive punishment package. “No,” they would say, “rape is not the shrimp cocktail or salad bar on this cruise ship towards criminal reformation. Forced sodomy is more like the daiquiri or colada that must be purchased a la carte.” Well according to Human Rights Watch, 140,000 American inmates are raped each year, which are more rapes than all the people raped outside of prison each year. And there are about 300 million more people not in prison.
We see it in movies and read it in books all the time and have a good laugh about it. “Don’t drop the soap,” and so on, but isn’t this worth a minute of our attention? Some think of it as just another consequence of the abomination of criminal activity. Just know that the consequence for every crime, from multiple murders to stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family, is the very likely possibility of rape. I know I keep stressing this, but this isn’t a nice rape where afterward you get to sit in a bath tub with your bubble bath and your Yankee candles and soft music playing in the background while you rock back and forth and an elderly Vietnamese woman pours large cup-fulls of warm water over your head. This is the kind of rape where afterward you take your bleeding asshole back to your cage that you’re going to spend the next ten years living in and prepare yourself to get raped again tomorrow.
Now if you posed it to me as an either/or situation I would obviously pick the ten years of continual sodomy as opposed to the ten years of continuous imprisonment, but handing out both seems like double jeopardy. And aren’t you locked in a cage all day in jail? Someone should be watching these people! Are these prisoners going out alone on nature walks; how are they getting raped so much? My only consolation is that occasionally a prison guard breaks the law and gets sent to prison and then I bet he gets raped a bunch of times. That’s not much, but it’s a start.
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It’s just instinct. Humans are designed to pass their seed to anything that moves. While we’ve developed enough over the years to be a bit more selective as to what moving objects we actually mate with, if you’re trapped in a tin can without any other choices, you make do.
It’s the same thing with the Navy. Stranded out on the ocean for months at a time. Dick’s gotta go in something. Might as well be Steve.
Comment by D14BL0 — June 26, 2008 #
When the aliens come down, they’re going to separate us and then use our natural instinct to put our dick in something against us. These are all of the details I can reveal at this time. Steve knows more: if you can get him to talk.
Comment by JMD — June 27, 2008 #