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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama Administration Calls Out 7 GOP Governors Refusing to Crack Down on Prison Rape
These 7 GOP Governors Are Refusing to Crack Down on Prison Rape. Now the Obama Administration Is Calling Them Out.Seven states, all led by Republican governors, are defying a federal law aimed at cracking down on the nationwide epidemic of prison rapeand on Wednesday, the Obama administration started calling them out.
The law in question, the Prison Rape Elimination Act, was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President George W. Bush in 2003. In 2012, after years of study by a bipartisan federal commission, President Barack Obama's Justice Department finalized the law's requirements, and gave states about two years to start trying to comply. Forty-three states did. But today, nearly two weeks after the May 15 deadline, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, and Florida are still not complying with the lawand several GOP governors say they're ignoring the law on purpose.
So far, at least five Republican governors have notified the Justice Department that they aren't going to try to meet the new prison-rape reduction rules. The mandatory standards, "work only to bind the states, and hinder the evolution of even better and safer practices," Indiana Governor Mike Pence wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on May 15. Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter missed the deadline, then wrote a letter to the administration complaining the law had "too much red tape." And in a letter dated March 28, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a possible contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, called the law "counterproductive" and "unnecessarily cumbersome." The prison rape rules "appear to have been created in a vacuum with little regard for input from those who daily operate state prisons and local jails," Perry wrote.
Otter, Pence, Perry, and the other GOP governors opposing the prison-rape reduction are a minority in their own party: More than 20 other Republican governors have embraced the new rules. And Perry is wrong: The rules, which have been under development for years, weren't created without input from prison operators. The commission that studied the prison rape issue included Gus Puryear , who, at the time, was executive vice president for the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest owner and operator of private detention facilities; James Aiken, who had more than 33 years in managing and assessing correctional facilities; and a federal judge first appointed by George W. Bush.
read: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/states-not-complying-prison-rape-elimination-act
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Obama Administration Calls Out 7 GOP Governors Refusing to Crack Down on Prison Rape (Original Post)
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May 2014
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. Ignoring the law on purpose, and why?
Simple, Black President says do it, they will say no, filthiest swine on the planet and we are tolerating as leaders with power...
Wow, are we fucked up ...