The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse
75% of respondents reported at least one instance of sexual violence by Corrections Officers
(COs).
This includes:
• 48% of respondents who reported violence from a single male CO.
• 32% of respondents who reported sexual violence from multiple male COs.
Respondents reported numerous types of sexual assaults by COs :
• 68% were touched in a way that felt inappropriately sexual while they were clothed, including 57% who had their chest/breasts touched, 43% who had their genitals grabbed, and 55% who had their bottom grabbed.
• 36% were asked to strip search in front of other incarcerated people.
• 36% were asked to remove their bra in front of male COs during a strip search.
• 27% were forced by a CO to perform oral sex.
• 18% had their naked genitalia touched by a CO.
• 16% were forced to perform anal sex by a CO.
• 20% were forced to perform another sexual act by a CO.
That’s the only logical conclusion, right?
Rape in the system is a feature, not a bug.
From a report about trans inmates: