Right Wing Group: Protections To Prevent Prison Rape Are Too ‘Costly’ And ‘Heavy-Handed’

[Tx4obama]

A right-wing “think tank” released a report today criticizing the Obama administration’s new anti-prison rape protections as a “burden” that is too “costly” and “heavy-handed.”

This week, the Department of Justice published new standards addressing the epidemic of rape and sexual abuse in our nation’s prisons. The guidelines, which apply immediately to federal prisons and give financial incentives for states to comply, are a laudable, widely praised, and long overdue step in combating rape in the United States.

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/06/20/503226/american-action-forum-prison-rape/

[LiberalLoner]

1. Of course the GOP is against reducing rape. At this point they are becoming cartoonishly evil.

Can't you just see them twirling a long handlebar mustache?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Considering how many of them ought to be in federal prisons themselves,

maybe they'd want to rethink that position.

[madrchsod]

3. dam these guys are certainly hung up on sex...

there tiny little world revolves around vagina`s and homosexual sex.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. From the NY Times article

“In popular culture,” said a summary of the rules issued on Thursday, “prison rape is often the subject of jokes; in public discourse, it has been at times dismissed by some as an inevitable — or even deserved — consequence of criminality. But sexual abuse is never a laughing matter, nor is it punishment for a crime. Rather, it is a crime, and it is no more tolerable when its victims have committed crimes of their own.”

Many on even these liberal boards still seem to need to learn this, even if we have been moderately successful in shaming them enough to claim that they are not "promoting" sexual violence as punishment (they used to do so openly, and laugh about it), but only "describing what happens," etc.