From the side of the studio said that “Brokeback Mountain”, corresponds to the summary of the light comedy “Let’s Go To Prison”, “A glance at the point of the American criminal justice. “In case it was too subtle for you, the DVD-Box gone with a piece of soap, which expect some poor prisoners to decline to take him - and a hilarious suffer sexual violence in the process.
Or maybe you feel you not for a movie. Rather, it is a boardgame afternoon. What about picking up “Do not drop the Soap,” a board game, by the son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. The game is only for entertainment, “says Nicole Corcoran, the Governor of the spokesperson. What, after all, be fun, and try to “prevent the Aryans of the narrowness of the shower (one of the goals of the game, according to their promotional materials)?
Here in Washington, but the weather was fine in recent times, ie, if you are bored in recent weeks, you may have wanted something from the house. One option could have gone to the Department of Justice, on the third floor, officials have held hearings on prison rape, interrogation of the directors of some of the worst prisons in the nation to ensure that the abuse of the Interior their walls.
Such hearings are held every year. This year, the transcript is not yet online, but in the year 2006, you heard about a man named Bill Clinton said: “I had no other choice but to s register in a relationship with another prisoner in my home, for the rest of them Starting me. In exchange for protection from other prisoners, I had at any time with him, he asked sexually. It was so humiliating, and I often cried in silence of the night in my bed … But with a treatment that is better or more than 10 men demanding of you sex at any given time. ”
Clinton’s testimony was not very funny, and it was not for entertainment. In 2001, the Human Rights Watch report, “No Escape”, a letter from a prisoner who bekennende “I have no more feelings physically. I was raped by five men black and white, two men, at a time. I forgot my knife in the head and neck. J’avais beaten, and it was difficult to beat, which I do not think I have ever had just goodbye. ”
Prison rape is a very strange in our culture. It is both a pleasant source of humour, implicitly accepted a form of punishment and a width of violations of human rights. We turn to the legislation called Prison Rape Elimination Act, at the same time, we produce films which meant, for the sense of humor sexual abuse of prisoners.
From time to time, we are working also recognize that rape is still a prison honoured part of the punishment for criminals. If Enron’s Ken Lay was sentenced to prison, for example, Bill Lockyer, the attorney general of California, spoke about his desire, in the borders of a person Escort Lay 8-by-10 cell, it could with a tattooed dude says, “Hello, my name is Spike, honey.”
The culture is the same with your comments. Certainly, it was unthinkable that the government today, corporal punishment in prisons, there is little or no outrage if the government trainees prisoners in other institutions in which detainees were brutally Infringement . We do not touch, but we can not be tried for the behaviour of Spike, we can now?
Given that our jokes and cultural products show, we can affirm or ignorance. We are aware of the abuse, and we know, of rape. Research at the University of South Dakota’s Cindy Struckman-Johnson found that 20% of prisoners reported being coerced or forced sex, and 10% said they were brutally raped. In 2007 an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 60000 prisoners claimed sexually irritation by other prisoners during the preceding 12 months. Given the stigma surrounding the admission of such damage, the real figures probably significantly higher.
But on the whole, we seem to find more humor than anger in these crimes. This is partly explained by the simple nature of the criminal law, rehabilitation and down increasingly vergeltend.
In the 1970’s, as an economist Glenn Loury wrote, “the correction system was generally seen as a way for authors of reintegration into society. Since then, the emphasis is on rehabilitation of sentence and remained there. ”
On the road, Mike Huckabee markig him yet. “We block too many people, that we are crazy,” he says likes to say. “Not that we really fear.” Criminals are not sent to prison to learn how to live outside the prison, in prison to get what they deserve. And it paves the way for the adoption of all types of abusive violence. It is not true that we tolerate rape in the prison itself, but not exactly that concern us, and sometimes, as indicated in Lockyer’s remarks, we take a perverse satisfaction in their lives.
Morally, our tacit acceptance of violence in prisons, it is grotesque. But it is also counter-productive. Research economists and Jesse Shapiro Keith Chen, said that the violence of prison inmates to make more violent, after leaving. If your choice between the trauma of the same hardening, so that no one will contact you or the trauma of prostitution itself, so you protect against attacks, either by far, for the rehabilitation and psychological adjustment.
And we as a society to bear the consequences - also because it leads to the former Less than hire more crime in the streets, and because several of them at the end again in prison . A recently published report, the Pew Center on the States showed that more than one of the 100 Americans is now in jail. California alone increased from $ 8.8 billion a year in prison to its people - a 216% more than what it paid 20 years ago, even after taking account of inflation.
Money is, of course, it can not be spent on schools, on training, on wage developments and supported drug treatment. The money, in other words, it can not be spent all priorities, the people in the prison. Money is spent, instead of housing prisoners in a violent, brutal and counterproductive atmosphere. And there is nothing funny about that.
