Where is the outrage about this from those who wish to protect women’s spaces from predatory men?
If the rapist had been a trans woman they would have been all over it like a rash. But a cis male prison counsellor no less repeatedly exploiting his position to rape an inmate?
Crickets. That’s not even a double standard - it’s no standard at all.
Wow! I didn’t know courts would deny qualified immunity. (I live in Texas. “Sovereign immunity” means the schools and the cops and the school cops can do anything to your kids, like abuse them, and you can’t do didly squat about it, because of qualified immunity and sovereign immunity.). Cops can handcuff a 9 year old sitting at her desk for being disruptive, drag her and her desk out of the classroom, lock her in a closet in the principal’s office, and put her in “alternative education”, i.e., reform school. If you complain, the cops can pound your head into the sidewalk, put you in a chokehold, and ban you from school property for two years.
You can talk to your state Senator, and she will go with what Dan Patrick tells her. You can complain to the office of civil rights, and they will “mediate” a settlement where the school refuses to admit responsibility, and keeps right on abusing your kid, until you decide to homeschool your kid, at which point the school complains that not enough kids are enrolling in public schools, causing state funding to be lost, and Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott get vouchers passed by the legislature, which doesnt help homeschoolers, or parents who live three hours from a private or charter school.
An Illinois prison lost qualified immunity? Bet the Supreme Court 6, who all went to Georgetown Prep, upholds qualified immunity, because there has never been a case that said a Correction Officer couldn’t use a prisoner as rape bait, or climb up in the ceiling like Batman to jump down and intervene. That’s how qualified immunity works. Even torture is allowed if there hasn’t been a case that says it’s wrong to connect a prisoner to a car battery by two alligator clips on their nipples and turn a crank that sends current through their secondary sex characteristics.
Basically, we live with the Star Chamber, the Inquisition (religious freedom, don’t you know), and the Chateau d’If/Bastille.
Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which all 50 states and federal government have passed and enforce, a prisoner cannot consent to any sexual act while in custody (including while on probation or parole, or during incarceration) with any prison/corrections employee. Additionally, any prison/corrections employee who knows about the sexual relationship and fails to report it, is also guilty of rape.
I don't see how they can discriminate against trans folk when it comes to PREA. But even if the current DOJ is excluding trans, the state versions of the law is still in force and is being enforced.
Ta, Robyn. Stupid and corrupt. If anyone is looking for a great charity at which to throw some Ameros, I recommend Just Detention. Their motto is "Rape is not part of the penalty."
The Prison Rape Elimination Act treats all sexual contact between staff and inmates as abuse or assault of an inmate as inmates cannot legally consent. How could a new trial prove she "consented" when, by legal definition, she could not.
"According to Sexton’s log of the interview, Hicks told him that Nielsen told her that for the past “couple months, maybe more,” MacLeod had been having unprotected vaginal and oral sex with her"
Um, NO motherfucker! HE WAS RAPING HER! CALL IT WHAT IT IS!
So is the so-called counsellor who repeatedly raped an inmate and stalked a correctional officer going to be indicted on charges and tried in a court of law? And can Nielsen sue him for damages, too?
What the fuck is wrong with the fucking judges ordering a retrial on damages? Sexton is obviously a goddamned idiot and there are no extenuating circumstances that are going to change the facts about what happened to this woman or the fact that Sexton, et al, are goddamned idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to run a garbage dump much less a prison. Fucking morons.
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe the judges want to give her even more money! They fucking well should!
It is 100% true that the "prevailing attitude” among prison officials was that “prisoners lie" all the time. When my friend Debbie self-reported every single day for 4 months that she had blood in her stool the staff persisted in disbelieving her and saying she was faking it to get drugs. After 4 months of this a tumor appeared, she was sent to an oncologist, and was found to have Stage 4 Rectal Cancer.
When my friend Mia had a grand mal epileptic seizure, the guards said she was faking it and was high on illegal drugs and sent her to The Hole, even though she'd been in that prison for 15 years and was being treated for epilepsy the whole time she was in there. She demanded a urine test, which came back clean. Ten months later she had another one and they did it again, and again she demanded a urine test, which came back clean. Nevertheless, the Parole Board counted both attacks as "violations" and delayed her release date for an entire year because of them.
When I told the jail I was held in for 8 days that I was gluten intolerant, they at first didn't believe me, so I got no food I could eat. It was only after my attorney and my family called the jail repeatedly to confirm this that they believed me, but even then they persisted in stating that they didn't know what "gluten intolerant" meant...even the nurse and doctor in the jail said this, which must have been a lie or else their licenses should be revoked for being too stupid to work in a medical field.
It isn't hard to tell if an inmate is lying or not. They lie to me sometimes, even though I'm trying to help them, but I can always tell. Most of them don't have enough education to lie really well, but then, again, most of the corrections officers don't have much education either. In Missouri they don't even have to have a high school diploma, so I suspect their "lie detection" faculties are Not. Very. Good.
Paul Blart would come up with a better plan than this, and being compared with him is worse than anything the courts would inflict upon him.
Where is the outrage about this from those who wish to protect women’s spaces from predatory men?
If the rapist had been a trans woman they would have been all over it like a rash. But a cis male prison counsellor no less repeatedly exploiting his position to rape an inmate?
Crickets. That’s not even a double standard - it’s no standard at all.
Fucking hell.
Thanks for writing this up.
Wow! I didn’t know courts would deny qualified immunity. (I live in Texas. “Sovereign immunity” means the schools and the cops and the school cops can do anything to your kids, like abuse them, and you can’t do didly squat about it, because of qualified immunity and sovereign immunity.). Cops can handcuff a 9 year old sitting at her desk for being disruptive, drag her and her desk out of the classroom, lock her in a closet in the principal’s office, and put her in “alternative education”, i.e., reform school. If you complain, the cops can pound your head into the sidewalk, put you in a chokehold, and ban you from school property for two years.
You can talk to your state Senator, and she will go with what Dan Patrick tells her. You can complain to the office of civil rights, and they will “mediate” a settlement where the school refuses to admit responsibility, and keeps right on abusing your kid, until you decide to homeschool your kid, at which point the school complains that not enough kids are enrolling in public schools, causing state funding to be lost, and Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott get vouchers passed by the legislature, which doesnt help homeschoolers, or parents who live three hours from a private or charter school.
An Illinois prison lost qualified immunity? Bet the Supreme Court 6, who all went to Georgetown Prep, upholds qualified immunity, because there has never been a case that said a Correction Officer couldn’t use a prisoner as rape bait, or climb up in the ceiling like Batman to jump down and intervene. That’s how qualified immunity works. Even torture is allowed if there hasn’t been a case that says it’s wrong to connect a prisoner to a car battery by two alligator clips on their nipples and turn a crank that sends current through their secondary sex characteristics.
Basically, we live with the Star Chamber, the Inquisition (religious freedom, don’t you know), and the Chateau d’If/Bastille.
Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which all 50 states and federal government have passed and enforce, a prisoner cannot consent to any sexual act while in custody (including while on probation or parole, or during incarceration) with any prison/corrections employee. Additionally, any prison/corrections employee who knows about the sexual relationship and fails to report it, is also guilty of rape.
Cool secret, they excluded trans folks from implementation of that bill at the start of the regime. But it wasn't being enforced very heavily anyway.
I don't see how they can discriminate against trans folk when it comes to PREA. But even if the current DOJ is excluding trans, the state versions of the law is still in force and is being enforced.
https://kfor.com/news/local/former-odoc-officer-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison/
Ta, Robyn. Stupid and corrupt. If anyone is looking for a great charity at which to throw some Ameros, I recommend Just Detention. Their motto is "Rape is not part of the penalty."
Meanwhile V coding is an endorsed federal practice and policy. Not really that different.
If you are sensitive of stomach, do not look that up.
I read a lot of messed up stuff and I like to think I'm battle hardened by depravity, but this one made me sick to my stomach.
This is a civil suit, right? Are these people facing criminal charges for RAPE?
Sounds like they ALL need prison time. Except the victim of course.
This makes me so angry I want to beat my head against the wall or drink all the alcohol I have or something awful.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act treats all sexual contact between staff and inmates as abuse or assault of an inmate as inmates cannot legally consent. How could a new trial prove she "consented" when, by legal definition, she could not.
"According to Sexton’s log of the interview, Hicks told him that Nielsen told her that for the past “couple months, maybe more,” MacLeod had been having unprotected vaginal and oral sex with her"
Um, NO motherfucker! HE WAS RAPING HER! CALL IT WHAT IT IS!
So is the so-called counsellor who repeatedly raped an inmate and stalked a correctional officer going to be indicted on charges and tried in a court of law? And can Nielsen sue him for damages, too?
Logan county has been consistently Republican for a long time.
What the fuck is wrong with the fucking judges ordering a retrial on damages? Sexton is obviously a goddamned idiot and there are no extenuating circumstances that are going to change the facts about what happened to this woman or the fact that Sexton, et al, are goddamned idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to run a garbage dump much less a prison. Fucking morons.
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe the judges want to give her even more money! They fucking well should!
It is 100% true that the "prevailing attitude” among prison officials was that “prisoners lie" all the time. When my friend Debbie self-reported every single day for 4 months that she had blood in her stool the staff persisted in disbelieving her and saying she was faking it to get drugs. After 4 months of this a tumor appeared, she was sent to an oncologist, and was found to have Stage 4 Rectal Cancer.
When my friend Mia had a grand mal epileptic seizure, the guards said she was faking it and was high on illegal drugs and sent her to The Hole, even though she'd been in that prison for 15 years and was being treated for epilepsy the whole time she was in there. She demanded a urine test, which came back clean. Ten months later she had another one and they did it again, and again she demanded a urine test, which came back clean. Nevertheless, the Parole Board counted both attacks as "violations" and delayed her release date for an entire year because of them.
When I told the jail I was held in for 8 days that I was gluten intolerant, they at first didn't believe me, so I got no food I could eat. It was only after my attorney and my family called the jail repeatedly to confirm this that they believed me, but even then they persisted in stating that they didn't know what "gluten intolerant" meant...even the nurse and doctor in the jail said this, which must have been a lie or else their licenses should be revoked for being too stupid to work in a medical field.
It isn't hard to tell if an inmate is lying or not. They lie to me sometimes, even though I'm trying to help them, but I can always tell. Most of them don't have enough education to lie really well, but then, again, most of the corrections officers don't have much education either. In Missouri they don't even have to have a high school diploma, so I suspect their "lie detection" faculties are Not. Very. Good.
“Cruel and unusual punishment” is unconstitutional, but good luck getting the Supreme Court to protect convicts.
I hear you. Even “libtards” don’t give a goddamn about convicted criminals. Brubaker. Based on a true story.