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
The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.
In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.
Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.
Cruelty is the point
There literally could not be any other possible point to this, even if they tried
Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.
No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.
Well it’s simple. The US just didn’t want to give slavery away, because then they’d have had no production capabilities to compete on international markets.
So that’s why the US has the highest % of prisoners in the world. US prison population is similar size as China’s prison population and there’s 4x as many people in China.
1.7 million prisoners. That’s like 1/100 adults.
And once you go in, even for a small crime, your probably just end up doing worse shit inside. The recidivism rate in the US is crazy.
no real consideration? what do you meeeeeean american exceptionalism
You can’t say those words. Those are Tankie words
it’s not tankie to have critiques of america
it’s tankie to deny legitimate criticism of regimes whilst also leveling similar critique at simply “enemys of”, or doing a what-about-ism in order to redirect discussion away from said criticism