According to a lawsuit filed in 2015, the city of New York has helped enable the ongoing abuse and rape of several female inmates at the all-female Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers prison. Two women behind the lawsuit, who wish to remain anonymous, say they were both raped on multiple occasions by the same corrections officer, Benny Santiago.
The lawsuit also says that eight other corrections officers were involved in raping women at the prison on a regular basis, and in one case one of the inmates even got pregnant.
According to CNN,
The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society, seek damages from Santiago as well as an overhaul of Department of Corrections policy in order to break what they call a “culture of systemic rape.”
Santiago abused the two women in unrestricted areas that were not monitored by security cameras and would wait until after center captains had made their supervisory rounds, which were made at the same time every day, the complaint says.
After reporting the assaults to the staff at the prison, one of the plaintiffs were told that nothing could be done about the attacks.
“This abuse is only possible because, in the face of repeated warnings, the City of New York has enabled a culture of complacency to perpetuate at Rikers Island and thereby consented to the abuse of women in its custody,” the lawsuit said.
The Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers was listed as one of the worst prisons for sexual assault in a 2012 Department of Justice survey. According to the survey, 5.9% of the female inmates at Rikers reported that they were sexually assaulted by the prison staff.
“Sexual violence is at record proportions in DOC, and rape and other sexual abuse of women are endemic at the Rose M. Singer Center,” Seymour W. James, the attorney-in-chief of The Legal Aid Society told CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/21/us/rikers-island-lawsuit/index.html
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/lawsuit-claims-city-allowed-guards-rikers-prison-rape-inmates/
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We dont know the whole story here. The women themselves are not exactly on the up and up if they are inmates, however, that doesn’t mean they deserve to be raped either. Im simply saying that this could be a set up. Im sure this happens all the time in male and female prisons. Ive had acquaintances that worked at prisons and they had stories that were horrid as to what goes on in the prisons. Not all criminals are bad or deserve to be in prison. Some criminals dont deserve to be treated properly because they have done something so disgusting that even an animal wouldnt consider doing it. This is the world we live in. We can’t continue passing automatic judgement simply because we hear something. If we dont have the full deatails then we dont have all the tools to use complete logic. I wasnt there so logically i cannot take sides on the matter. Neither can anyone else that wasnt there. In our age of technology allowing information to flow so quickly and freely we often lose sight of logic and respond with emotion. Emotion has no place in a situation like this. Thats how people get away with something they did or in some cases get blamed for something they didnt do.
Absolutely disgusting! :(
very bad news for society,
because they are not safe
thanks for sharing
Bad news,,i appreciate you blog
thanks for sharing this news.
best of luck.
It sounds like these women were literally helpless at that time. Now the officers (if I can call them this nice) should be locked up and go through the same what these women went through.
This has Carlos Danger written all over it!
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Well if history taught us anything, just because an authority tells you something is ok, doesn't mean it is ok. The Nuremberg Trials is a perfect example of this... Complete scum doing things they know is wrong and using the acceptance of an "authoritarian official" as justification. What goes around, comes around...
Mr. Good Vibes, you'll be my go to blog WHEN EVER someone says "They ("government") wouldn't do that." You know...fools who give the state any shred of credibility or think the state has any level of benevolence. The types that have been living in a fantasy land because reality is way to hard to accept. Thank you for being an awsome resource for helping wake our slumbering brothers & sisters.
So tell me again when is the revolution?