Module 10 is on the challenges that women who are incarcerated in this country have while in the prison or jail system. Although PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) has been in place for three years, the presence of rape while being incarcerated is very real for both genders. Most terrifyingly would be an inmate being taken advantage of by a person of authority in the institution. This article that I found on CNN (I love you, CNN) claims that multiple women were sexually assaulted in an Alabama prison for multiple years between 2009 and 2011.
Over 50 women gave up evidence in interviews that rose questions about officer-on-inmate sexual violence in the prison. In the past few years, 20 employees of the prison have either transferred to another prison or have been terminated in response to a sexual misconduct complaint. For years there were complaints filed but never were they looked into further until now. Past inmates have been quoted saying that women were raped and physically abused on a daily basis. The prison in question has been found to be the 11th worst prison for sexual violence and the worst for violence against women in the country.
The issue with this scenario is that it reinforces the idea in society that people in prison lose their rights as people. Humans. They become incarcerated objects serving a sentence. This is beyond unacceptable especially in a prison where all of the inmates are women. It becomes them against the administrators. Those administrators know that they will be believed over the woman in this maximum-security institution and without any complaints being looked into, that only gave the administrators an even brighter green light to continue doing what they were doing because not only were they not getting caught but they were being complained about and STILL not getting caught. Absolutely unacceptable.
Article link: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/22/justice/alabama-prison-complaint/index.html
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