Sexual Violence

We all hold up that our prisons are the final point for the socially rejected criminals and violent transgressors. We know that our prisons are so overcrowded that the Supreme woo of California issued a court order to reduce the number of inmates. We know that since there are more inmates in prison the chance of getting rehabilitated are very slim to none. And we also know that the ratio of charge of guard to inmate is extremely high. scarce do we know what goes on in our prisons and shut aways? We know we have prison gangs, drugs, assaults, robberies, and even murders in prison.But what happens when you mix an overcrowded prison or jail with violent, drug using, angry, abusive, gang associate men with the average person who is in prison or jail for the first time. The result is an aggressive sexual act known as inmate lash out. The fight against rape in our communities is doomed to failure and ordain continue to be so as long as it ignores the fosterage grounds for rapists our prisons, jails and reform schools. For too long, we have turned away from the rape crisis in these institutions, which now hold 1. 3 million men and boys.In most of them, rape is an entrenched tradition considered by prisoners a decriminalize way to prove their manhood and to satisfy sexual needs and the brutal lust for power. The exact number of sexually assaulted prisoners is unknown, but a conservative estimate, found on two decades of surveys, is that more than 290,000 males are sexually assaulted behind forbid every year. By comparison, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that there are 135,000 rapes of women a year nationwide, though many groups believe the number is higher. (Mezey and King, 1995).