Essay On Prison Rape

Growing up children need a positive role model in their life, preferably one of the same gender, if that positive role model isn’t present in that child life it could potential lead to that child following in the wrong steps of a person with a negative influence. Let’s be honest, a large percentage of the inmates grew up in a single parent home or an abusive household; in cases such these the child tends to act out and misbehave in order to receive attention or because they simply believe having a record is ‘cool’. If the gender of the officer is the same as the inmate then there is a chance that an officer could become a positive role model for them. On the other hand if the gender of an officer is different from that of an inmate, we risk the chance of unwanted activities occurring. Though we might not want to admit it, prison rape is real, whether it’s between two inmates or an inmate and a guard. In order to ensure rape doesn’t occur the best thing to do would have to be place male officers with male inmates and female officers with female inmates.
Coming from man’s prospective, we can be a bit stubborn at times, a little headstrong if you will and we tend to believe we know more than women, it’s like we’re always right. With some men if a woman was to …show more content…
If women aren’t place in the same area as male inmates then the risk of a rape occurring between a guard and an inmate is little to none. Some might want to pretend like this isn’t an issue when it really is, prison rape takes place every hour. Every year the allegations made by inmates claiming guards raped them seems to be increasing more and more, which is unfortunate considering the fact that it can’t be determined whether or not the rape actually occurred or whether the inmate just has a dislike for that particular