How will Chelsea Manning fare in prison?
Someone took issue with a comment I made highlighting how prison guards sexually abuse prisoners.
To pretend that prison guards do not abuse and sexually abuse prisoners is denying fact.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/08/how-will-bradley-manning-be-treated-in-prison-as-a-woman/278961/
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In the past, a transgender prisoner like Manning would have been especially vulnerable to sexual violence. That may be changing, thanks to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Although the law was passed by Congress 10 years ago, it was enforced for the first time earlier this week, when every state in the country had to demonstrate compliance with the new set of federal regulations. The regulations were shaped by extensive research and graphic testimonies showing that gay and transgender prisoners were at particular at risk of victimization.
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The PREA is supposed to address this issue, but military prisons don't often follow regulations. Though The Atlantic's article is promising on behalf of the way Chelsea Manning will be treated, history shows otherwise.
I did find it uniquely disturbing, in a prior threads comment (one that was flagged by a user who wouldn't comprehend what I wrote and distorted the meaning for the jury), that the same 'macho' prison guards who demonstrate homophobic behaviors are the same ones who could engage in sexual abuses to homosexual and transgender inmates.
When sexual abuse used to punish someone for being different than the way an abuser accepts can, at times, just be a sexual deviance on behalf of that abuser. The abuser might harbor latent homosexual and deviant sadomasochistic tendencies.
Do I need to post a bunch of articles about military and non-military sexual abuses?
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