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7/21 Has any sodan had a stint in prison? Is it really as bad as the
stories say, that rape is rampant and if you are not in a gang you
are totally doomed?
\_ this is your butthole: o
this is your butthole in prison: O
any question?
\_ my butthole looks more like this: *
\_ so, not just stuck in jail for holding, but actuall convicted
\_ so, not just stuck in jail for holding, but actually convicted
of something and incarcerated?
from /etc/mail/aliases:
jail: blojo,dougo,seidl,oj,jwang,sky
\_ According to some movies, even holding can be risky.
\_ According to some movies, computers need 9-track tape drives.
\_ Not to mention that about half of all prisoners have HepC. Don't
know the statistics for HIV but I'm sure its bad.
\_ Why is it that no prisons have been held liable for the abuse that
goes on in prisons? Prisoner safety is obviously the jail's
responsibility, it would seem obvious that raped inmates could sue
the prison for megabucks.
\_ Primarily because convicts have little or no credibility, and
because, in general, the spirit of anti-authoritarianism is so
strong, you'd have a bitch of a time getting anyone to testify.
I mean, seriously, who's going to want to bring down the wrath
of a fellow inmate that's willing to rape another man? An it's
more than just the rapist's wrath -- it's the entire community's
code of silence that you'd be up against...and the entire
community's reprisals.
\_ Because nobody cares about prisoners, and nobody cares about
rehabilitation. The overwhelming public attitude is "prisons
as punishment only" and "lock em up and throw away the key."
Pretty much all the lessons of Attica and others have been
forgotten.
\_ what's Attica?
\_ what's google?
\_ Sigh. http://www.talkinghistory.org/attica
\_ Dang. I thought you meant GATTACA
\_ I have not been in prison, but a family member has been in LA
County. Anything can happen in prison, but nothing is
guaranteed to happen. The uncertainty is scary. What happens
to any given individual depends on who they are, how tough they
are, and what their personality is like. I'm sure luck plays
a part, too.
\_ So if you're a short Asian guy with smooth skin in LA County,
what's the best personality to have to avoid trouble?
\_ sucky sucky $5!
\_ I think they like those with milky white cheeks
better though.
\_ Why can't they just put a fucking bullet into the rapist's head?
Oh that's right, prisoners have rights too. Right my ass. You make
trouble, a bullet awaits you. It'll end the rape.
\_ It'll end a lot of things in Oakland and SF too.
\_ RACSIST!
\_ Are you kidding? It may be easy to smuggle certain things into
a prison, but gun is not one of them. And if it is smuggled,
guess who is more likely to get it? Prisoners have no right,
and the law of the jungle applies there. The strongest gets
access to every thing, including the ass of their fellow imates.
\_ I think he was talking about the justice system putting a
bullet, not other inmates doing it.
\_ Why would it be in the interest of the justice system
to do that? If the situation is really that bad, the
system probably prefers it that way.
\_ Bullets are cheap and you can send the bill to the
family anyway.
\_ Hey, kill the ruined humanity that rape people in prison
and you don't have to feed them anymore. And they're
definitely out of society.
\_ I thought the purpose of prision rape is deterence.
Like the joke about the size of asshole before and
after, people would have to think twice before doing
anything that could possibly lead them to jail. The
ruined humanity is actually employee of the state.
\_ just learn from my country Singapore and use caning. Very
effective! Hardcore criminals also scared to death. Would
rather go to prison then get caned. Criminals become tame
like pussy cats when you show them the cane.
\_ I wish the system here is as practical.
\_ mitch igusa was my cs250 ta back in the day. no horror stories
from him.
\_ Who is igusa? And why would he tell?
\_ there's this thing called google...
\_ Which explains who he is but not why he would tell.
\_ I have not, but I have a step-brother who has been in. I can
ask him if you like. I understand that it really depends on
where you end up. If you are in a Federal prison, you are
basically safe unless you piss off the guards. If you are in
a state prison, you are safe if you are in a rehab or CRC
unit, not safe at all in maximum security. As for county jail,
it depends on the county. If you piss off the guards in any
prison, they will "set you up" for rape, so you have to walk
a fine line between avoiding the wrath of the guards and
not looking like a snitch or kissup, in which case you
will get beaten up at the least.
As for prisoners suing, well they have tried. This is the
worst case I know of, and the jury let the prison guards off:
http://www.spr.org/en/pressreleases/2003/1022.html
http://www.spr.org/en/news/2003/0923-1.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/08/23/prisons |
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| www.talkinghistory.org/attica -> www.talkinghistory.org/attica/ Credits Attica Revisited - masthead A Talking History Project Attica Revisited Introduction DRAFT - UNDER CONSTRUCTION On Monday morning, September 13, 1971, an uprising by prison inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest prison confrontation in American history. Five days earlier, thirteen hundred prisoners had rebelled, taken over the prison, and held forty guards hostage. Issuing a list of demandsincluding calls for improvements in living conditions as well as educational and training opportunitiesthey entered into negotiations with state officials. The negotiations failed and state police and national guard troops seized the prison; in the course of taking it over they killed forty-three individuals, including ten hostages. The Attica Rebellion is more than a prison insurrection. It is also a window into the time and culture that produced it. It offers scholars and non-scholars alike an opportunity to examine closely a facet of our society that most of us rarely see or experience yet which is increasingly viewed by other nations and cultures as a fixture of American life. We lock away millions of people every decade in penal institutions; occasionally, as in the case of Attica, their inmates rebel and become socially and politically visible. When they become visible, so do our prisons and our criminal justice system. Prisoners rebel for various reasons: because the warden is insensitive and cruel, because they are abused by guards, because living and sleeping conditions become intolerable, because certain prison communities foster group militancy, because social and cultural movements outside prisons encourage rebellion. Whatever the reasons, the act of rebellion brings public attention. Revisiting it permits us to peer into a world that we, after all, createdand perhaps reexamine our penal institutions once again, without waiting for another bloody rebellion. By bringing to the public the numerous documents, radio documentaries, films, videos, and interviews that were produced during and after the events of September 1971, we hope to give teachers, students, and the general public an opportunity to directly experience and reflect on the events and participants of the Attica Rebellionand to stimulate debate and discussion of America's criminal justice system. With the cooperation of the New York State Archives and the Pacifica Foundation, we have gathered together an extensive collection of audio, video, and textual records of the Attica rebellionincluding written transcripts and audio recordings of the McKay Commission hearings as well as dozens of audio documentaries produced by the Pacifica Foundation. The documentaries contain many hours of interviews with key actors in and observers of the drama played out in September of 1971. We have also asked historians to contribute their perspectives on the story of Attica. We hope you find these resources useful to understanding the history of the event and the history of New York and American penal institutions in general. |
| www.spr.org/en/pressreleases/2003/1022.html Press Release Corrections Officer Found Not Liable in Booty Bandit Trial; Verdict Undermines Accountability in Corrections, SPR Says. October 22, 2003 LOS ANGELES A Fresno jury on Tuesday cleared three corrections officers of liability in the March 1993 Booty Bandit rape of inmate Eddie Webb Dillard by a fellow prisoner, a verdict the nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) said undermines accountability for sexual assault behind bars. The jury found that corrections officers Robert Allan Decker, Joe Sanchez and Anthony Sylva were not negligent in placing Dillard in a Corcoran State Prison cell with a convicted murder and known sexual predator. Dillards attorneys contended that their client was placed in the cell with Wayne Robertson as punishment for kicking a female officer. Lara Stemple, SPRs executive director, said the verdict demonstrates the tremendous obstacles that victims of prisoner rape face when seeking justice through the courts. Dillard was placed in a cell with a man 100 pounds heavier than he was, a man known to have raped or assaulted at least 25 other inmates. Dillard was raped, and he was denied medical treatment after being attacked. If the jury felt the evidence wasnt compelling enough to find the officers negligent, it only underscores the problematic nature of the way our judicial system treats prisoner rape. |
| www.spr.org/en/news/2003/0923-1.html Prisoner Rape in the News Brian Skoloff, Alleged Calif Prison Rape Incident brings Guards back to Court, Associated Press, September 23, 2003. Eddie Webb Dillard claims the guards at California State Prison, Corcoran set up his rapes by convicted murderer Wayne Robertson, known as the "Booty Bandit," over two days in March 1993 to punish him for kicking a female guard at another prison. Robert Decker, Dale Brakebill, Anthony Sylva and Joe Sanchez were acquitted in 1999 of criminal charges in the same case of aiding and abetting sodomy in concert. Dillard filed the federal civil rights lawsuit in 1994 against Decker, Sylva, Sanchez and Kathy Horton-Plant, a prison medical assistant at that time who has since retired from the California Department of Corrections. Bastian said witnesses to be called during the trial in federal court in Fresno include Robertson, who admitted at the criminal trial to raping and torturing Dillard over several days after guards left him in his cell in 1993. Robertson testified that the guards intentionally put Dillard in his cell. "They knew what would happen to him if they put him in there," Robertson said at trial. Former Corcoran prison guard Roscoe "Bonecrusher" Pondexter will also be called to testify. Pondexter, who testified for the prosecution under a grant of immunity at the criminal trial, has said his fellow officers knew they were endangering the 23-year-old Dillard when they left him in a cell with Robertson, a hulking 6-foot-3, 230-pound convicted murderer serving a life sentence. At the time, Dillard weighed a mere 118 pounds and was a known enemy of Robertson after a run-in with the man guards called "a refrigerator with legs" at a prison in Tehachapi. According to affidavits by CDC's own investigators, Robertson was listed in prison records as an enemy of Dillard. It is against CDC policy to house inmates with documented enemies, prison officials acknowledge. Bastian said CDC records document at least 25 reported instances of Robertson assaulting or raping cellmates from April 23, 1983, until November 30, 1997, earning him the nickname "Booty Bandit." In a sworn statement filed in Kings County Superior Court in 2001, where the criminal case was heard, Barbara Sheldon, a CDC staff attorney, "concluded that Decker, Sanchez, Sylva and Horton had acted outside the scope of their employment, acted with actual malice." Sheldon also noted that the investigation found the guards "may have been involved in encouraging, promoting or covering up the Dillard rape." As a result, the CDC withdrew its defense of the guards. But later, after being notified by the prison guards union that state law required CDC to provide a defense, the CDC agreed to do so. Under state law, the CDC is now responsible for any compensatory damages awarded to Dillard. Joanne Mariner, an attorney with New York City-based Human Rights Watch, called the Dillard case a landmark example of neglect by prison officials nationwide involving inmate rape. "In Dillard's case, the allegations are extremely serious. The alleged facts of the case are more egregious than just about any other case I've ever seen," Mariner said. Corcoran was the nation's most deadly prison from 1989 to 1995, when 43 inmates were wounded and seven shot to death by guards. At least a dozen Corcoran guards since 1990 have been prosecuted on criminal charges and found innocent. Dillard, who had been in prison for assault with a deadly weapon, was released in 1996 and sent back to prison in 2003 for another assault with a deadly weapon charge. Robertson is currently housed at Pelican Bay State Prison where he occupies a cell alone, CDC officials said. |
| www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/08/23/prisons -> www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/08/23/prisons/ Complete archives for News - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rape as a disciplinary tactic Prison guards often ignore inmate rape, and even encourage it to punish prisoners who step out of line. One day Dillard made the mistake of kicking a female guard; for this sin and others he was promoted to the top of the correctional officers' shit list. Dillard was transferred to the cell of Wayne Robertson, better known as the "Booty Bandit." For a time, his vocation was beating, torturing and sodomizing fellow inmates while prison guards looked the other way. This psychopathic serial rapist was the guards' resident enforcer, one whose specialty was reining in abrasive young toughs. Dillard protested the transfer, pointing out that Robertson was a known predator. "Since you like hitting women, we've got somebody for you," came the reply. There, in a tiny box with the Booty Bandit, began the tragic re-education of Eddie Dillard. Lessons commenced with verbal abuse and threats, soon progressing to a violent and bloody assault in which Robertson beat the smaller, younger Dillard into submission. For the next several days Robertson beat, raped, tortured and humiliated Dillard, tearing open his rectum in the process. Guards and other inmates listened to the echoes of the young man screaming, crying for help and begging for mercy. When the cell door finally opened to let him out, Dillard rushed onto the tier and refused to go back inside. He was reduced to a psychologically broken, politically servile "punk" -- in the prison argot, the lowest form of life. Dillard was now jailhouse chattel, to be sodomized, traded and sold like a slave. Robertson, on the other hand, received new tennis shoes and extra food for his services. When he was released from prison, Dillard told the Los Angeles Times of the trauma he still suffers: "They took something from me that I can never replace. I've tried so many nights to forget about it, but the feeling just doesn't go away. Every time I'm with my wife, it comes back what he did to me. Though using rape as a management tactic may sound like an extreme concept, the Dillard case appears not to have been an isolated incident. |