• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    She was raping another prisoner. That’s why she being moved. There is no consensual sex in prison.

    Solitary confinement is needed in some situations. This isn’t one of them. It is overused but should never be used as a punishment. It should be used to keep people safe.

    It’s a blurb of an article and I don’t know the backstory to know what the right answer is.

    To me it doesn’t matter if she murdered someone or not. The prison system is supposed to be dispassionate about the crime.

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      4 months ago

      The sex was not officially allowed, but there absolutely could be consensual sex in prison. The reason they don’t allow it is because in many (but not all) cases it is coerced.

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      There is no consensual sex in prison.

      Lolwut? Inmates can consent with each other. Not everything in prison is a scene from Oz.

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            4 months ago

            Non-consensual sex is rape. You can’t consent to sex as an inmate. That said, we don’t know if that’s the reason or not. We will have to wait till further information comes out

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              Being an inmate doesn’t mean you lose your ability to consent. They could have very well been in a relationship. Just because it was against the prison rules does not mean it was non consensual.

              You are the only one calling it rape - there is nothing else implying it was non consensual.

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      There is no consensual sex in prison.

      Between guards and inmates. Inmates are on a level playing field and can have consensual sex. Unless of course you’re talking about legal technicalities in which case, the suffering is the point.

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        No inmates cannot have sex in prison with other inmates. It is prohibited.

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            Too much of a power dynamic. It causes to many issues in the facility for the staff and other inmates.

            Typically it’s ignored in most cases but when it’s an issue they move inmates to other facilities.

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              And they couldn’t move her to another women’s facility? or another unit in the same facility? They had to go straight to men’s genpop? I also don’t buy that sex among peers causes too many issues. Unless it’s criminal, in which case you’d deal with it on that front. Because if that was true we’d have to make sex among peers a crime in normal society too.

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                I have no clue why they moved her to a male facility. It’s not in the article. Until more comes out on the case, it’s a mystery.

                I suspect this is a maximum security and I have no clue how many they have for women in Washington.

                In Nevada where my girlfriend worked in the prison system, they only have one for women. They’d move them to another section of the prison if possible or send them out of state.

                Overall though they led it slide as long as there were no issues.

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                  Overall though they led it slide as long as there were no issues.

                  Overall they let rape slide? Or is it not rape now?

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                  So we’re not aware of any issues, just the ridiculous rule, and cruel transfer. Have I got that right?

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                    No it does not appear that you have it right. The rule isn’t ridiculous at all and we don’t know why the person was transferred. She assumes that is the reason and it’s a fair assumption. Prison isn’t summer camp. It’s there to keep the communities safe by removing bad elements.