Outside the Beltway

The majority of all rapes in America take place in prison. Which means the majority of rape victims are likely men.

A system designed to protect the innocent has instead become a menagerie to imprison them. A legal code designed to proscribe specific behavior has instead become a vast, vague, and unpredictable invitation to selective enforcement.

The state has an 8th Amendment duty to protect those it incarcerates from brutality, a duty which it quite often fails to carry out because of indifference and the hiring of “corrections officers” who are often of incredibly low intellectual caliber and moral character.

Rape is the de facto sentence for prisoners placed in many of our prisons and penitentiaries.

Many of the things that happened at Abu Ghraib routinely take place in our domestic penitentiary system.