The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse
The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.
In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.
Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.
Cruelty is the point
Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.
No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.
A crurl racist pedophile rapist removes protections against rape for a vulnerable minority
Well I for one am shocked and did not see this coming! Get fucked by an umbrella, you assholes
How about just making sure that rape doesn’t happen anymore AT ALL in US prisons? It’s seriously wild that “don’t drop your soap now!” os a joke because its funny because rape in US jails is so normalized that we went from outrage to just lolling about it.
If you order and carry out this kind of thing, there is something wrong with your brain.
Even W had the fucking decency to start initiatives to do something about prison rape, FFS.
W?
George Washington (real answer, George W Bush)
Dubya. Bush II, electric boogaloo. Dodger here, on your left (his right):
Just a WILD thought…… how about everyone has rape protections?
No but you see, it’s funny when men and minorities are raped.
/s
Ironically, W is the one that signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. I remember talking to conservatives that thought W was speaking some kind of foreign language.
Sounds like socialism
There are zero peaceful resolutions in dealing with the christian menace
Fuck this whole administration. Fucking disgusting.
I’m not American, but that violates the “cruel and unusual punishment” part of the constitution, no?
Haha silly foreigner, you think we still follow that old piece of paper.
There has long been a dark undertow of anti-intellectuals and sick fuckers in this country that I’ve encountered with all my life that practically celebrate prison rape (of men by other men) because they think it’s deserved. For pretty much any crime, they think that is part of the punishment.
They are sick and broken people, and unfortunately, it is part and parcel of the culture.
When W came along and proposed doing something about this, I remember having conversations much like I had on the playground, except with supposed functioning adults - they’d give blank stares as if they thought it was anathema to do something about it. They seriously think that rape (and other violence) is something you deserve in prison. Like it didn’t even compute for them to have no tolerance for rape of men.
I’m sure these people think that trans/intersex “deserve” it even more so…
People like that think rape is ok, period. They don’t believe women about it, either, because they think any “excuse” you give the rapist is valid whether it’s wearing a skirt, having a drink, being LGBT+, committing any crime, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc.
They think rape is the right of men. (They likely also believe female perpetrated rape isn’t real at all)
The ghouls on the supreme court have ruled that to be banned, a punishment must be both cruel and unusual. If it’s cruel and common then it’s fine for certain types of cruelty. Like solitary confinement lasting weeks, or months, or even years in some cases.
There are more okay forms of cruelty, and a lot of things that are banned, but fewer banned things than anyone with human empathy would condone.
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I would not have thought a policy position could be objectively described as ‘pro-rape’, just inarguably, but, well, here we have it.
Fucking horrifying.
Goddammit they so fucking evil and we have no one to stop them.
They’re not going to stop. People like this don’t stop. They don’t stop until forced. Power is the only language they understand.
I guess we need to take the power back. Someone should write a song.
We did but they missed.
Can one of you guys just go do the thing already
Somebody is closer than anyone else to the guy and could do the thing. We just need that person to realize it.
Expected nothing less from a child rapist.
And a cock sucker himself
Ain’t nothin wrong with sucking a little cock though
It’s probably at least a bit wrong when you realise “Bubba” was the name of Maxwell’s horse, though…
These people want everyone raped in prison.
They’re fundamentally the most evil people to exist and need to be killed before they kill us first
I wonder when Donvict issues executive order to reverse W’s PREA.
hopefully nobody reminds them because I’m confident these people think prison rape is the entire point of prisons
Oh, for sure. I grew up in a deeply red part of the country, and if you don’t already know, I assure you that there are many conservatives that think rape is, and should be, part of the “correctional” prison complex. That if you commit a crime, even something relatively minor, if you don’t go to get prison and get raped, well, then, they personally feel you cheated or that the system isn’t working quite properly. Because prison is supposed to be punishment, and obviously, that means rape, I guess. And other forms of violence.
Again, that’s for male cishet prisoners. Unless you are “manly” enough to avoid it, I guess. Anyone else - they deserve it.
I’m quite sure that for trans/intersex their thoughts are even more horrible.
“Americans allow Trump DoJ to immediately stop enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people”
Fixed
Ah yes, blame the people not in charge just like the ruling class likes.
They’ll have another No Kings march in a few months. That should do it.
Easy to talk shit while sitting in another country. These same types of monsters are working to take Canada as well. If they do, I’ll make sure to post a snarky lil comment about it while you’re struggling.
This is my favorite kind of MAGA-level defensive bullshit comment.
We tell you repeatedly what is going to happen if you keep letting your kid run around playing with matches and are met with literal decades of belligerent, shitty “mind your own business! USA! USA!” responses- and now that your house is ablaze and we’re telling you to PUT IT THE FUCK OUT, your very smart and good response is “lol shut up, the fire is going to spread to your house too.”
People like you are why the US is fucked.
I’m about the furthest from MAGA as you can get. But if lumping me together with them makes it easier for you, then go ahead i guess. It’s really difficult to entertain more than one point of view at a time, after all…
But it’ll be on Saturday and that’s when oligarchs housewives is on tv.
You mean the cute little parade, right?
Only if the weather’s nice. And if they get all their permits beforehand.
I’ve been told asking anything more from people is too much because they have families and jobs. I get the feeling they’re not looking further ahead to where the fascism and blatant disregard for human rights affects them. Every day it creeps closer.
Right, because no one in history who ever put themselves at risk had a job, family, dreams, hopes, or anything to lose. Americans’ heroes, in their eyes, were all just superhuman Disney characters who never really were in danger of losing anything and whose victory was guaranteed.
That is unironically half the problem. We have a totally mythologized view of our own history that has made us damn near incapable of repeating it
It’s cruelty all the way down.
I’m going to carry KY with me at all times now. Just in case a Republican sends me to an unwilling orgy.
