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Casey Trenker

Mrs. Bimonte
English 91
February 10, 2015

Right violations in prison


Violations are
happening every day in
prisons.
Picture being sent to prisons for
simple crimes like stealing a bag of
chips or a hotdog. Then once in
prison, all your rights start to
disappear allowing to get raped by
other inmates or even the security
guards. Unfortunately, many
inmates are facing these problems
around the world, whether it be in
a forced labor prison or in state
prison.

Even the workers at prisons are


violating the prisoners rights, you
know, the ones at the prison to
protect the prison and prisoners,
hence the name prison guard.
(Prison Abuse and Torture). Also,
prisoners perform sexual favors for
other prisoners or guards. At some
war prisons, prisoners are forced to
pose naked, masturbate, and
perform oral sex on other men as
humiliating torture.(Wall).

The violated rights and


the violators:
In prisons around the world many
violation are being violated.
Among these violations are
freedom of choice, freedom of
movement, and freedom of action.
(Clay County Jail Administrator
Sentenced). These arent the only
violations, others violated rights
are freedom of speech and
freedom of thought. (LaFranchi).

This photo of Kelvin Stevenson


immediately after being beaten by guards
with a hammer-like instrument on Dec. 31,

2010, is seen for the first time in the video


of the beating finally released this month.

Where and Why? :


The violations I am talking about
happen all over the world. Some
lawsuits have been filed against
the Texas prison system.(Johnson).
Some major violations have been
happening in a prison called
AbuGhraib.(Edney). According to
the military guards that work at
AbuGhraib, the forms of torture
they are using was ordered by
higher ranking military officers to
humiliate prisoners and try to get
terrorist information from the
prisoners. At AbuGhraib, they left
inmates in their cells wearing
female underpants, handcuffed to
the door, as a form of humiliation
torture.(Wall). The prisoners
perform sexual favors for the
prison guards because the guards
bribe, coerce, and violently force
the prisons to perform these sexual
favor. (Edney). When the
prisoners would plea or beg for
protection of rape from the other
inmates, the guards would just
laugh and ignore the begging.
(Edney). Does this sound like the

ways a prison should be ran? The


point of prisons are to punish, but
should the prisoners be raped and
beaten for no reasons?

Who is being violated? :


Many people of many different
races and ages are being violated
in prison. Also, its not just adults
being raped or beaten, its children
as well. According to Hazel Edney:
The children are not immune
They too are kicked beaten,
punched, choked, and sexually
preyed upon by adult staff. This
shouldnt be happening unless its
an act of self-defense. Children
should not be raped or beaten.
Around the world Violations are
happening to prisoners of all ages,
races and genders.

Conclusion:
All in all some people think these
violations are good and others
think the violations are bad. Those
who think they should be stopped
can all work together for a solution
to these problems.

Work cited page


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Edney, Hazel Trice. "Experts say U.S. prisoners are subjected to Iraqi-style
abuse." New York Amsterdam
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Kevin, Johnson. "Texas prison officials scrutinize abuse case." USA
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LaFranchi, Howard. "Friends of Castro now cry foul." Christian Science Monitor 22
Mar. 1999
: 4. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Feb. 2015.
Wall, James M. Abuse At AbuGhraib. Christian Century 121.11 (2004): 45.
Academic Search Premier.
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"Orders don't absolve abusive soldiers." USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Premier.
Web. 6 Feb. 2015.
"Clay County Jail Administrator Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Violating Inmates
CiviRights." FBI. FBI, 27 May 2014. Web. 06 Feb. 2015.

Prison Abuse and Torture in .S. Prisons. YouTube, YouTube, 5 Apr. 2011. Web.
29 Jan. 2015
"Video Released of Georgia Guards Beating Prisoners with Hammer." San Francisco Bay View.
Ed. Mary Ratcliff. N.p., 30 Aug. 2013. Web. 10 Feb. 2015.

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