Multiple Alabama prison guards being investigated for sexual assault of inmates
Is this really a function of the government
Credits:
Mike Shaner
Montgomery, Al- According to an article published by The Tuscaloosa News
on May 28, 2012, the Department of Justice is investigating claims by
multiple prisoners, past and present, that they have been subjected to
repeated sexual assaults by prison guards.
Many of these women are already victims who have been imprisoned for so called crimes in which there is no victim, the justice system has failed them, and they have now been placed into the custody of deranged monsters. The troubling thing is that this seems to be the norm—as opposed to some isolated incident:
"A lot of it goes on in the middle of the night when no one thinks anyone is listening," she said. "I didn't sleep a lot. You'd see a woman get up and go into the bathroom and a guard go in after her and another one stand watch. Nobody would say anything. A lot were too scared," former Julia Tutwiler Prison inmate Stephanie Hibbett told the Tuscaloosa news.
According to the same article Hibbet was repeatedly groped and harassed, made to feel like a piece of meat, as opposed to an actual human being.
The general consensus according to several inmates is that the behavior shouldn’t come as a surprise: “You are talking about a person who has no real education, earns a low wage, and is willing to act as a guard in a place to that cages human beings like animals in a zoo,” said one inmate who asked to remain anonymous. “Is it any surprise that someone who fits that profile would become abusive when given so much authority over others? I imagine it is commonplace throughout the prison system.”
The DOJ has said they take these claims very seriously:
"We've been very, very proactive in hunting down and investigating thoroughly any complaint we've received," Thomas said. "We've taken swift administrative action against any officers or employees who are found to have violated this. The first offense means dismissal," said Alabama Prisons Commissioner Kim Thomas told The Associated Press
Many of these women are already victims who have been imprisoned for so called crimes in which there is no victim, the justice system has failed them, and they have now been placed into the custody of deranged monsters. The troubling thing is that this seems to be the norm—as opposed to some isolated incident:
"A lot of it goes on in the middle of the night when no one thinks anyone is listening," she said. "I didn't sleep a lot. You'd see a woman get up and go into the bathroom and a guard go in after her and another one stand watch. Nobody would say anything. A lot were too scared," former Julia Tutwiler Prison inmate Stephanie Hibbett told the Tuscaloosa news.
According to the same article Hibbet was repeatedly groped and harassed, made to feel like a piece of meat, as opposed to an actual human being.
The general consensus according to several inmates is that the behavior shouldn’t come as a surprise: “You are talking about a person who has no real education, earns a low wage, and is willing to act as a guard in a place to that cages human beings like animals in a zoo,” said one inmate who asked to remain anonymous. “Is it any surprise that someone who fits that profile would become abusive when given so much authority over others? I imagine it is commonplace throughout the prison system.”
The DOJ has said they take these claims very seriously:
"We've been very, very proactive in hunting down and investigating thoroughly any complaint we've received," Thomas said. "We've taken swift administrative action against any officers or employees who are found to have violated this. The first offense means dismissal," said Alabama Prisons Commissioner Kim Thomas told The Associated Press
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