Sexual Victimization In Prisons

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Sexual victimization in prisons and jails for adults and juveniles have became too common for not reporting sex crimes. The prison have been put under investigation as they should for not making reports. But of course correction official will be in denial and keep hiding sex crimes. There is no need to be in denial when it 's a widespread problem that is heard about daily. Maybe if people will do their research on how common this issue is, they would think twice about committing any crime that will land you in prison or jail. The most devious part is the correctional officers are committing sexual assaults in these detentions towards inmates. You would assume our inmates are the only ones but that is not the case. How degrading can people get? …show more content…
How tragic and biased, it is against the law to not report a crime that has been reported, it does not matter whether you are a male or female just make the report. Victims do have a right have right during the criminal investigations to participate in the proceedings of a full investigation. But that right is being torn away from them. Isn 't that what the Crime Victims’ Rights Acts is about?If the Law says that a Crime victims have the right to a proper investigations then it should not matter if you are an inmate, male, female or child, a victim is a victim. Many victims in a sex abuse case are being deprived of these rights and not enough people are trying to change that all. If they were then a changed would have happen by now, more inmates will feel safer and less like that they are targets to rape and assault. Think about the victim for once, it’s like police press the issue for a victim to report rape, but the end result may be they walk away from a crime that 's committed. The journal Crime Victims’ Rights During Criminal investigations, states ,” if prosecutors work out a no prosecution agreement with an offender, they will have to notify his victims of what they are doing or the fact of that potential charges will never be …show more content…
Why would police ask victims if they went to the hospital after being raped, just to be denied their rights as well? These victims and patients have done the right thing, just by requesting for their finding to be turned over to them in writing. But that does not matter if it 's in writings or not, hospitals have failed to follow their wishes. That 's a right patients have, rape victim are not everyone in a hospital should get the same treatment of care. Locked away is an article written by Willoughby Mariano about theGrady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. This hospital actually had made claims that causes for questions that won 't be answered. Grady claims being barred from making reports, or turning over their finding to the patient by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Can you believe that the rape kits were removed from their hospitals by people who higher up with them? Or was that a lie they came up with to cover the fact that they didn 't do their job? When the truth actually comes out it will be to late, victims have been abused by administrators already that the problem won 't even matter anymore. Their needs to be a strong victim who gets denied their rights from a hospital to stand up a make a lawsuit claiming they are not doing right by their patents. No way is it ok to ,are a slip up when it comes do handlingDNA from a rape kit is okay or justifiable at all. A victim

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