Jail House Rock...

“Number 47 said to number three

You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

I sure would be delighted with your company.

Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me....

Sad sack was sittin' on a block of stone

Way over in the corner weepin' all alone

The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square

If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair" – By Elvis Presley

 

What's wrong with this picture? The truth of the matter is rape in a jail or prison does take place, and it is not a laughing matter. Especially when you have to talk to the love ones of the victim and do the investigation. My book Equitable Local Governance and my research takes issue with the rate of incarceration of men and women in jails and prison.

 

Don’t get me wrong, I am not soft of criminals. Research shows that we have to become smarter about locking people up. I am for a smaller government and a safer community. To apply our hard obtain knowledge, we must come to the realization that we cannot incarcerate our way out of this societal problem.

The lack of respect for authority and for our country translates into a hostile community at large in many areas. Atheists and social elites have removed the pledge of Allegiance to the Country and the Flag, prayer and the bible from many of our public schools, if not all. Therefore we are reaping the benefits of the over educated, self-appointed social-economic elites. They are what I call: educated savages.

Now back to my topic, once arrested and placed in jail or prison a percentage of inmates will be raped. America is only 5% of the world's population, yet our incarcerating rate covers roughly 25% of the world's prison population. This I will add is in raw numbers and by percentage of the population. Of any developed country in the world, America has the most prisoners.

Using 2013 numbers, that is 1.57 million inmates housed in federal, state, and county jails and prisons. In the federal prison system, drug crimes covers more than half of those sentenced to a year or longer. This brings us to the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Which requires federal, state and local correctional facilities to maintain and enforce a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual assault for both inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate rapes.

From 2011-2012, there where an estimated 4 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2 percent of jail inmates reporting that they experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the preceding 12 months or since admission to the facility.

To put this in a better perspective, it is estimated that an inmate is raped every three and one-half seconds of every day in an America jail or prison. This unwelcomed sex for incarcerated inmates is a horror story that needs to be told. To be continued…thank you for reading….