Prison Rape

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Is Rape Okay With You?

Diane Dimond | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

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Is there anyone out there reading this who condones rape? No, of course not. So then, why do we allow the brutal, repeated rape of our prisoners?

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Iran Abuse Confirmations Abound: Mohsen and Saeedeh's Stories

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

This week, two more official accounts come out of Iran, confirming the extent of violence that is taking place in the country's detention centers.

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Senator Kennedy and the Animated Discourse of Liberty

Pat Nolan | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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The patriot Sam Adams celebrated the "animated discourse of liberty." Neither Kennedy nor his staff disrespected my own strongly held views on abortion, gay marriage and judicial nominations.

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Rape and the Republic: Iran's Victims Speak Out

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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This week, Mehdi Karroubi came under fire for stating what for decades has been public knowledge in Iran: The systematic rape of political prisoners as a means of permanently disabling them from society, let alone from political activity.

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Behind the Prison RIot in California

Pat Nolan | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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The skills the inmates develop to survive violent prisons make them dangerous when they are released. You can't cage men like animals and then expect them to be model citizens when they return home.

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Colo. judge sends message with prison rape penalty

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 09.09.2009 | Denver

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DENVER — A federal judge was so appalled that a former Colorado prison guard accused of raping an inmate was allowed to plead guilty to a misdem...

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Getting Serious About Prison Rape

Pat Nolan | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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Prison rape has long been a staple of jokes on late night TV, but otherwise it has been ignored as an unseemly but intractable problem of our prisons.

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