lRAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSES IN PRISONS
TITLE- A CRITICAL STUDY TO FINDOUT THE CAUSES OF SUCIDE BEHIND BARS AND REMEDY
MRS. PYALI CHATTERJEE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DISHA LAW COLLEGE ADRESS-- C/o. Mukesh Ranjan, F2 Maruti Residency, Amlidy Raipur, C.G, 492006 pyali.chatterjee@gmail.com 7489371981
BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR
I am Pyali Chatterjee, I have completed my schooling from Govt. Higher Secondary School, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. After that I have completed my BA.LLb from Department of Law, Calcutta University in the year
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About 11 percent said, they have had sex with other men. And this trend is not new. The People’s Union of Civil Liberties had this to say about Tihar way back in 1981: “When a young boy enters, the prisoners have been known to have bid a price for the boy. The price offered is in terms of 'bidis', soap or charas. Often prisoners have been divided into camps and the groups have fought each other on the issue of who shall have the new entrant.” “This is similar to what BBC had reported from east Africa. The trend is so common across all the continents, and in a large number of cases the trauma of a rape leads to assaults, murders, life-long psychological illnesses and suicides. There are a million personal accounts of rapes of males in jails that is out there! In simple words, raping another man becomes part of a dominant prison identity for reasons ranging from power and criminality, to sexual gratification. Often, young and new entrants are the victims. Some recover, while some are traumatised for
This article discusses how badly the corrections officers treat the inmates at Mid-State Correctional Facility in New York. The inmates are beaten and penetrated by foreign objects by the officers that are supposed protect them. Not only are they mistreating the inmates but they are getting away with it as well. There are many instances and examples of inmates from this specific facility, Mid-State Correctional Facility, getting beaten by guards. These allegations of brutality against the inmates are going more viral now than ever.
She acknowledges that living in prison is not an easy life and it can sometimes be brutal. She experiences women inmates be sexually abuse, be humiliated, and treated poorly by guards. The author
In this prison, inmates were subject to psychological abuses and absolute isolation. This “…demonstrated that the state’s power was in fact growing rather than shrinking, at least with regard to punishment” (Berger,
" If you shout or scream, your time in solitary is extended; if you hurt yourself by refusing to eat or mutilating your body, your time in solitary is extended; if you complain to officers or say anything menacing or inappropriate, your time in solitary is extended. " They overuse their power; they take their job way too personally. To close, prisoner abuse and the disregard for human dignity described in Just Mercy highlight how the urgent need for reform within the correction system is very wrong for those who are in positions of power to prioritize their responsibilities over personal
The participants in this experiment were not the real guards and prisoner hence this does not give a real picture of what is happening on the ground as they were just doing it for the sake of money though they were negatively and emotionally affected. The maximum ‘sentence’ two weeks that is too short to prove the ‘point’. The conditions were too minimal to provide a meaningful analogue to the existing prisons.
But the research so far shows that an overwhelming majority of women in the juvenile justice system have experienced sexual abuse. Davis mentioned, on the sexual abuse that is experienced by women in the prison system in California, before and after they enter the system. According to Assata Shakur’s status as a black political prisoner in her handwritten, “In the history of New Jersey, none of woman pretrial detainee or prisoner has ever been treated as she was, continuously confined in a men's prison, under twenty-four-hour surveillance of her most intimate functions, without intellectual sustenance, adequate medical attention, and exercise, and without the company of other women for all the years she was in their custody.” A major problem and factor in our juvenile justice system and our prison system is that women and women are being sexually abused in prisons, and if they aren’t, the standard practices of those systems have the potential to retraumatize victims. Strip searching, for example, is standard practice for adult prisons but on a case-by-case basis in the juvenile justice system.
In order to do this they need to make new centers to help prisoners inside better themselves. In Alabama prisons may soon shut down 14 of its prisons for overcrowding, neglect, and violence in the state’s correction systems. In the prison St. Clair Holman in Alabama the prison system makes prisoners act different. There is no safety, security or supervision. “We have people being killed, sexually assaulted, raped, stabbed on daily basis at St. Clair, Holman, and multiple facilities; it’s a systemwide problem,” said Charlotte Morrison, a senior attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), which represents Alabama prisoner.”
Annotated Bibliography American Academy of Pediatrics. "Child Abuse and Neglect: the section of child abuse and neglect (SOCAN). " n.d. A. aap Organizaton Website. Print. 22 November 2016.
Aishah Abdul-matin Mr. J. Partin English 112-FON07 04/01/18 Annotated Bibliography Peled, Einat, et al. The meaning of running away for girls. Child abuse & neglect, vol. 33, no. 10, Oct. 2009, pp. 739-749 In this article, Einat Peled focuses on how run-away girls leave home and the meaning they attribute to it.
The textbook relates to this article because they both speak on Sexual Coercion taking place inside the United States prison, whether it’s through correction officers or other inmates. Inmate victims of rape, who have been sexually assaulted and blackmailed/threatened and physically abused repeatedly. Suspects Officer/Inmate seem to use victimized/inmates as sex slaves against their own will. Inmate/victim barely get justice for such horrible endurance leaving them to suffer in silence.
Public attention and their concern about child abuse has increased the relatively work of Australian Government to make strong law and legislation to prevent the child abuse. Support and services provided to prevent child abuse and support provided to help affected child. The Australian government has develop legislations and committed to develop a National child protection frame work. What comes under Child abuse?
Back in 1971 there was a prison experiment that took place in Stanford University and it explains clearly why these cases happen in the prison and jail environment. Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist did this study to show what kind of behavior happens when they people are given authority and it also shows how they use their power affecting the situation they are put into. In this research paper we are going to visit the case of Los Angeles Men’s central jail and find out what went wrong. We will also take a look into what happened in Abu Gharib prison and see if this is an ongoing trend in the correction facilities. We will then look back on the Stanford Prison study conducted by the psychologist Philip Zimbardo in 1971 to see if this experiment truly proves that behavior does change resulting in the abuse of the inmates by the officers.
Davis specifies that the lack of accountability for inappropriate behavior is caused by faulty administrative action as she explains, “Grievance or investigatory procedures, where they exist, are often ineffectual...” (78). Since women’s prisons were established, sexual abuse has been used as a form of punishment, although this is not formally acknowledged by prison officials, it is undeniable that women’s prison staff more than oftentimes engage in sexual
In the prison system, inmates rely on prison guards for essential goods, which is why the women feel they have no choice but to suffer their abuse. Because these women feel helpless, there are no truly accurate statistics that can tell the specific amount of black women abused in prison. The lack of information is also because most jails don’t keep proper records of the various abuses women report (Isaac, Lockhart, Williams). This proves that these prisons do not care about the well being of these women, nor do they care that the sexual offenders are properly punished.
Poor living conditions in prisons emerged because judges were inclined to send more people to prison than the space that was provided. Therefore, prisons became over crowed and hard to handle. Living spaces in prisons got smaller and more prisoners has to share their place with someone else. Security at the prisons also fell downhill, as male guards saw the women and young children as prey for rape. Most prisoners were either brutally assaulted and/or rape while in