Sexual Assault In Correctional Facilities

Sexual assault is when a person is physically forced, threatened, or intimidated. It consists of oral, anal, or vaginal force against the will of the victim. When a person is being held against their will to have non-consensual sex and forced upon someone is an offence. Forcing someone to have sex is a crime and in every state it is a felony but punishable by law depending on the charges held against the suspect. Most sexual assaults and rape that happen in correctional facilities are caused by correctional staff and/or officers. Correctional administrators reported that 8,7363 alleged sexual assault in prisons, jails, and other adult facilities in 2011 and a great increase since in 2009 (7,855) and 2010 (8,404). Statistics show that 51% involving non-consensual sex and 49% involving staff towards inmates. Victims that are sexual assaulted or raped have injuries, mentally unstable, emotional, or depressed. Staff that were found guilty of sexual assault were fired or forced to resign from that facility. While sexual assault/rape in correctional facilities is a sociological issue because when an inmate is forced to nonconsensual sex, the inmate maybe harmful to society upon release. People may not know if certain inmates were assaulted against their …show more content…
It is a shame in our nation that this type of incidents are also happening within the walls of our prisons. In the article by Allen J. Beck states, “As recently as five years ago, American corrections officials almost uniformly denied that rape in prison was a wide spread problem.” As a nation, we have come to know that in even in prison rape/sexual assault are still happening and that even being in a prison is not safe for anyone. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has surveyed and came to a conclusion that the amount of inmates being assaulted are in the