How Common is Sexual Assault in Correctional Facilities? - From CrimeDime

Reblogged from CrimeDime:

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A 2005 article that appeared in The Criminologist was titled, "It ain't happening here: Working to understand prison rape." Although I had spent some time working in correctional facilities at that point, I still labored under the popular myth that sexual assaults in prison were absolutely ubiquitous.

Kreinert and Fleisher's article taught me otherwise, and suggested that the narrative about prison rape is far more complicated than it might appear.

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[Regardless of the frequency or infrequency, sexual abuse and assault within correctional facilities is unacceptable and must be addressed. Law enforcement uses it as a big stick. The fear of incarceration is exacerbated in an interrogation scenario, by the utilization of the sexual abuse element. Cops don't say, "You'll be locked up and lose your freedom." They say, "You'll be locked in a cage with a rapist." --BitcoDavid]