(April 28, 2016 at 4:49 pm)Divinity Wrote:(April 28, 2016 at 2:27 am)Mathilda Wrote: It's also worth pointing out what going to jail for a pre-op transsexual means in Alabama.
It won't be a woman's jail, it will be a man's jail. So either the transsexual will have to spend their entire time in solitary confinement or will be at of risk rape on a daily basis.
To be quite frank, we need to fucking do something to reduce prison rape. Jails need to be held accountable when it happens under their watch.
All prison violence. The problem with simply locking people up, especially non violent people, is that they get put into a meat grinder and end up coming out worse and possibly more violent.
We should give prisoners educations and also teach them conflict resolution skills. On top of separating the violent and mentally ill from each other. As it stands now prisons are really nothing more than human warehouses that do nothing to reduce the violence of those who eventually get out.