Prison rape bill and American attitudes regarding criminals

[whitelotus]

Congress is preparing to pass a bill designed to protect prison inmates from rape and other forms of violence while in prison. I think this is something that has needed addressing for a very long time and something that most Americans have been willing to tolerate. Could this bill be the beggining of a shift in American attitudes of how we treat criminals?

For the last 150 years or so the American judicial system has concentrated on punishment instead of rehabilitation. Could this be the beggining of a change?

[PASAMONSTER]

rehabilitation of what

its not a sickness

crime---punishment/consequence

not rehabilitaion
and how else are the child molesters and rapists going to learn how their victims felt until they are victimized the same way.

[sleuth]

who is going to rape michael jackson?

[PASAMONSTER]

mike tyson

[whitelotus]

Originally posted by PASAMONSTER rehabilitation of what

its not a sickness

crime---punishment/consequence

not rehabilitaion
and how else are the child molesters and rapists going to learn how their victims felt until they are victimized the same way.

um.....many people commit crimes because of some type of mental sickness.

I personally think, men and woman who commit crimes should be punished yes, but also taught to change and act differently, giving them a chance to live a life without that crime.

do you know that these days , whenever someone gets busted for doing drugs, they get halled off to the slammer for the dumbest reasons?

why not take them to rehab and get into rehabilitation. So they change for the better. They are building more and more new prisons every day for drug users who are being sentinced to years in prison. Why cant we treat these people ? Why do we have to have them spend the rest of there lives in prison for something so stupid as that?

i dont think they should spend there whole lives rotting in prison for doing drugs for whatever reason.

but then again, there are certain crimes that shouldnt desirve to be rehabilitaed.

[PASAMONSTER]

i don't know any drug user that went to prison for a long time, unless it was a third offence.

yeah metal sickness and drug abuse are cureable to some extent

but premeditated murder, child molestations, domestic abuse, etcc.. theese criminals belong in prison if not in the chair

[whitelotus]

i was talking about small crimes, those who arent as serious as the ones you listed above.

i think thats what the bill is about as well.

plus, what do you think about the prison rape thing ?
no one answered that so far.

[PASAMONSTER]

I did. In my first post.

[whitelotus]

um no you didnt. The post is about a bill being passed to pretect men and woman from being raped while in a prison.

see, people dont really care about prisoners being raped, because they commited a crime, and its sort of a brutal punishment. We turn out heads away to something like this.....because a person desireves it maybe? I personally dont think any human deserves to be raped, i dont care if they once commited a crime or not.

they have there rights just like any other human being, criminal or law abiding citizen, who are we to tell them they dont have that right to be protected under the law ?

commit a crime, get locked up in the slammer and have a gay man named bubba rape you in the behind, and lets see what you will say about the subject

[PASAMONSTER]

and how else are the child molesters and rapists going to learn how their victims felt until they are victimized the same way.

the only ones that get raped in prison are them.

the person who rapes another inmate for no reason or without an Ok will be dead within 24 hours.


and there are xxxxxes in prison, the ones who are there specially to get xxxxed(the xxxxxxs) and do it willingly