California prison guard confessed to sexual misconduct. He got a year of paid time off and no charges.
California prison guard confessed to sexual misconduct. He got a year of paid time off and no charges.
Records obtained by the Guardian show women in California prisons routinely report abuse, but few officers face consequences
Why are there guards of the opposite sex in prisons? Prisons are single-sex so why not staff them similarly? Sure, there are also same-sex predators but the number must be much lower.
This is a really hard one in my opinion. On the one hand, no one should ever have to suffer that and anyone who does it should be removed from their position immediately and prosecuted fully. On the other hand, the ones claiming to be sexually assaulted are hardly the best people themselves, so you have to take their stories with a fair amount of salt.
The obvious solution is security and body cameras everywhere monitored by an independent 3rd party, along with additional protections so that guards and prisoners of different sexes aren't (or rarely) together, but we all know that's never gonna happen 😑
You take all 22 women's stories with a fair amount of salt? How many imprisoned women's stories equate to one male prison guard's story? What's the precise equivalency in your view? 🤮
I thought it was obvious I was speaking of the overall general problem, not to this case specifically. So the be clear, in the general sense when a report is made, neither side is particularly trustworthy. It's a criminal's word vs the member of a corrupt gang, so it's hard to know who to believe. So ideally we should have a system with checks to ensure this isn't even a possibility.
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“No way to fix this” says lemmy user where this happens regularly