- Prison rape
Prison rape commonly refers to the
rape of inmates inprison by other inmates or prison staff.According to
Human Rights Watch , at least 140,000 inmates are raped in the US each year, [cite web
url = http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report.html
title = No Escape - Male Rape in U.S. Prisons
accessdate = 2007-11-30
last = Mariner
first = Joanne
year = 2001
publisher =Human Rights Watch
pages = [http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report1.html I. Summary and Recommendations] ] and there is a significant variation in the rates of prison rape by race.Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc. statistics indicate that there are more men raped in U.S. prisons than non-incarcerated women similarly assaulted. They estimate that young men are five times more likely to be attacked; and that the prison rape victims are ten times more likely to contract a deadlydisease .According to the study conducted by the
United States Department of Justice for the year2006 , there were 2,205 allegations of inmate-on-inmate nonconsensual sexual acts reported, total, in the U.S. prison system. 262 of the allegations were substantiated. [ [http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/svrca06.pdf Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2006 ] ]Prison rape has become a staple of comedy or drama in films and television. Films such as "
Office Space ", "Half Baked ", and "Let's Go to Prison " have used it as a darkly humorous topic, while prison drama "Oz" contained multiple scenes of rape.ee also
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Types of rape
*Prison sexuality Notes
External links
* [http://www.spr.org/ Stop Prisoner Rape] Organization campaigning against prison rape
* [http://www.ansarburney.org/news/n6.html Mother raped in prison, son born there and imprisoned till the age of 40]
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-klein30mar30,0,2695376.story LA Times coverage]
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