According to the Baltimore division of the FBI, 13 corrections officers are among the 25 people indicted on charges of racketeering and conspiring to possess and distribute illegal drugs. Apparently, some gang members had a nice little scam running inside the jail, aided and abetted by 13 female corrections officers. Four of those women became pregnant by the gang-leader and two of them had his name tattooed on some part of their body!
FBI release
Gosh, there’s so much to talk about here! Why are women working with male prisoner populations? Whose brilliant idea was that? Is this kind of stuff common? What was the motivation for the women to get involved with gang related activities inside the jail? How and when do you manage to have sex with a prisoner? How do the logistics of that work? And isn’t sex with a prisoner technically rape? How can prisoners consent to sex?
Maryland is one of the leaders of the pack when it comes to defining sexual assault. In 2008, the state updated it’s statues to include a provision for “withdrawal of consent”, and naturally, it can only be used against men. Withdrawal of consent is when a woman consents to sex, and then at some point during penetration, decides she has changed her mind. If her partner does not immediately cease all activity and withdraw, he is guilty of rape.
Giving new meaning to the withdrawal method.
Wow. Sex in Maryland sounds like so much fun, doesn’t it? The courts are basically policing sex down to each and every thrust. Guys, you need to stop after every stroke and check to see if consent is still in effect. Well, I guess that’s one way to deal with lovers who rush the act.
http://www.wcl.american.edu/modernamerican/documents/Huff.pdf
Looking over the Maryland sexual assault laws, I came across this one:
2010 Maryland Code
CRIMINAL LAW
TITLE 3 – OTHER CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON
Subtitle 3 – Sexual Crimes
Section 3-314 – Sexual conduct between correctional or Department of Juvenile Services employee and inmate or confined child.
(a) Definitions.-
(1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) (i) “Correctional employee” means a:
1. correctional officer, as defined in § 8-201 of the Correctional Services Article; or
2. managing official or deputy managing official of a correctional facility.
(ii) “Correctional employee” includes a sheriff, warden, or other official who is appointed or employed to supervise a correctional facility.
(3) (i) “Inmate” has the meaning stated in § 1-101 of this article.
(ii) “Inmate” includes an individual confined in a community adult rehabilitation center.
(b) Prohibited – Correctional employee with inmate.-
(1) This subsection applies to:
(i) a correctional employee;
(ii) any other employee of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or a correctional facility;
(iii) an employee of a contractor providing goods or services to the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or a correctional facility; and
(iv) any other individual working in a correctional facility, whether on a paid or volunteer basis.
(2) A person described in paragraph (1) of this subsection may not engage in sexual contact, vaginal intercourse, or a sexual act with an inmate.
Hmm. Well, that seems pretty clear. No fucking prisoners.
What is the punishment for violating the rules?
In New York state, corrections officers who have sex with inmates are charged with rape and professional misconduct. This lady corrections officer was arrested and charged when she was six months pregnant by an inmate. They would get busy while she was on shift, right in the cell block, apparently! Talk about cell block tango!
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2013/02/21/blotter/doc5126115153f9e523302436.txt
Yeah, just for one second, let’s talk about the Cell Block Tango. If you’re not familiar with the musical Chicago, have a watch of the video below. Here’s the chorus:
He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you’d have been there
If you’d have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same!
Six lady murderers, all defending their actions. One guy snapped his gum in an irritating manner, so Liz killed him. Another guy accused his lovely wife of having an affair with the milkman, so she stabbed him. Six times. And on and on and on it goes.
It’s a snappy little number. It’s relevant to this discussion because it plays on the way we understand women and crime – even very serious crime like murder. Can you imagine six men dancing and singing and about how those bitches they murdered had it coming and only had themselves to blame? Would it seem charming and edgy all at the same time?
Not likely. They would come off as straight up psychopaths, and rightly so. But women are …. special? Even when they are unrepentant, remorseless murderers. Or rapists.
The law in Maryland is clear. The correctional officers who had sex with an inmate are rapists. They are guilty of rape. It does not matter, in a legal sense, whether that sex was consensual. Inmates cannot give consent, full stop.
And it’s entirely possible that the sex was NOT consensual. The lady guards demanded sex, and the inmates complied because they had no realistic choice. It happens. Especially in juvenile facilities, it happens.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/false-rape-culture/how-to-stop-rape/
It’s possible, but in this case, not particularly plausible. Technically, the ladies are rapists. But more likely, they are simply women who responded in a rather predictable way to the powerful swagger of an Alpha thug. The old “bad boys” story.
http://judgybitch.com/2012/11/21/hope-solo-and-the-allure-of-bad-boys/
The appeal of the dominant male is what set in motion the entire shitstorm at the Maryland jail, and if we’re going to continue to mix female guards with highly dangerous, dominant male prisoners, we’ll see more of the same results.
“Chicks dig jerks”, as Heartiste writes.
http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/chicks-dig-jerks-when-quantity-is-its-own-quality-edition/
Even so, even IF the sex was completely consensual, even IF the relationship between the guards and the gang members was predictable, even IF the guards and the gang members decide to get married and live happily ever after, the cold hard facts of the law state that the prisoners were raped.
So why aren’t these women being charged with rape?
It’s amusing in kind of a sickening way to watch the media try to give the ladies a pass. Oh, gosh, they suffered from “low self-esteem”. The prisoners “took advantage” of the poor dears.
Low self-esteem? They’re having sex with prisoners! No shit they don’t value themselves very highly. The prisoners took advantage of the guards? Are you shitting me?!? Who had the keys? Who was locked in a cage? Who had the upper hand?
Of course, when we try to talk about a couple of football players who fingered a drunk girl as suffering from self-esteem issues, the entire culture is an screaming uproar! Whatever “issues” the boys have or had, it doesn’t matter! Lock them up! Throw away the keys!
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/18/1732701/media-steubenville/?mobile=nc
This whole story is a perfect example of one of the most profound injustices boys and men face in Western society: they are held to much harsher, much sterner standards of the law than women are, for no reason other than the fact that they are men.
Justice is supposed to be blind. Rape is rape. Murder is murder. It shouldn’t matter whether a man or a woman committed the crime.
Female corrections officers raped male inmates, under the law. They should be held accountable for those actions. Just as men are.
http://rt.com/usa/guards-alabama-prison-stevenson-173/
In the words of HappyCrow:
Equal or Special
Pick one
Lots of love,
JB
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