Bienvenue sur Monde, une communauté francophone dédiée à l'actualité et la culture internationale.
Merci de respecter les Règles de l'instance jlai.lu
Journaux non acceptés :
Comment lire toute la presse pour 25€/an : le pass BNF
Original post from Reddit on r/countwithchickenlady, by u/Future_Employment_22
Le texte suivant est en anglais. Avertissement concernant le contenu: violence sexuelle.
Content warning: Like the original post, this post talks about sexual violence.
In agreement with OOP that, sadly, this will almost certainly enable more prison rapes of trans women than it might prevent prison rapes of cis women... but isn't this shifting back and forth the blame besides the point? The punitive system in most countries has a rape problem. The perpetrators are mostly men. However, most men have never raped anyone and most men never will. Protecting both cis and trans women is good, and I understand how it's decently convenient to separate prisoners just by gender or sex, but this completely ignores prison rape by males of males. The following might be a super naive idea taken directly from cheater servers in online video games, but how about a dedicated 'rapist prison'? Naive suggestion: When you are caught committing sexual or other severe violence against another fellow human in the punitive system two times, you serve the rest of your sentence in a dedicated 'rapist prison'. Now, I'm not saying that this place should be unsupervised: Exactly the opposite! The 'rapist prison' could receive extra staff, both for direct (more guards) and indirect (more social workers) prevention. However, inmates will still perceive being sent to that place (where there's always a bigger rapist than you) as a threat, which may discourage a lot of future prison rapists from becoming exactly that. As always, decisions can be disputed in court, e.g., if a prisoner feels like they have been wrongfully sent to that place.
I mean: Putting aside for a moment the bigger questions of 1) whether a punitive system heavily influenced by Abrahamic religions that prioritizes the atonement of an individual's sins directed against a universal moral authority is a good system, instead of a system focusing on compensation of the victim, like in the earliest documented legal system, and 2) how we can move from a system of punishment towards a system of rehabilitation.
Official article, because Reddit can suck a fat one. Also: "Log in to read mature content"? Say no to agewalls.
