Steam Punk Adept
catspook
Steam Punk Adept
catspook
It is well known that going to prison in this country put you at a high risk of rape, so in a way we already have this system. And yet we still have rapists and the rapists we release often reoffend, so I really doubt your claim that this would be a deterrent or lower the recidivism rate.
Rape in prison is far far less then you seem to think it is. But, since you already made a claim, could you post statistics on the percentage of inmates that are raped?
Well, according to this
article 1 in 20 prisoners report being raped. And according to this
article only 5% to 25% of rapes are reported. So the most conservative estimate would be that 1 in 5 prisoners are raped; that seems pretty damn significant to me.
Funny,
this article, says it's much less
Quote:
After more than four decades of research, it is still unclear how much rape and sexually violent activity occurs in prisons, jails, and other corrections facilities in the United States. What is clear from research is that, as with rape in free society, prison rape goes largely unreported.
Of the hundreds of studies in institutional corrections, less than 25 research studies have been conducted on prison rape. Of those studies, some asked inmates to describe their victimizations, including nonconsensual activities other than rape, while others examined official reports filed by inmates. Because none of these studies were national in scope, it remains difficult to estimate the extent of the problem. A meta-analysis of this research estimates a 1.91 percent lifetime prevalence for all inmates in the United States
Thus, although the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) 2003 states that 13 percent of all inmates have been raped in American prisons and jails, the most recent research estimates less prevalence of rape, whether inmate-on-inmate or staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct.
It looks like that article only takes into account rapes that are reported; as rape is a highly underreported crime, I have a lot of concerns about that.
Now, would you like to back up the claims your made in the OP that your system would be an effective deterrent, both for first-time and repeat offenses?