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...endemic violence behind prison bars must be addressed in its entirety. Congress recently passed laws demanding of the states to keep statistics on prison rape and investigate policy responses to alleviate the problem. This is a step in the right direction, but must quickly be followed by decisive action at the state and federal level. There needs to be an increase in the number of guards in prisons and, at the same time, guards need to be held strictly accountable for cruelty to inmates perpetrated by both guards themselves and other inmates...
...Everyone around me was laughing during the first section. They took the stereotype away from rape, its not just a man jumping out of the bushes. With the skits they made it seem like it was something that could happen to anyone,” said Caroline K. Hines...
During the show, performers acted out a several skits about dating, gender relations and date rape. The first part of the show involved the broad issue of mixed messages that men and women send each other. But as the show progressed, the performers focused on the topic of date rape and the tone became less comedic...
...Percentage of female graduates from the class of 2003 who said in an initial survey on sexual assault that they had been victims of rape or attempted rape during their time at the U.S. Air Force Academy...
...reader in horrific, shatteringly immediate scenes?not least the incident in which Hassan is violated. The result is a sickening sensation of complicity. Like Amir, the reader watches the suffering and does nothing. Hosseini turns that shared guilt into a subtle condemnation of a world that watched the rape of Afghanistan?first by the Soviets, then by regional warlords and the Taliban. True evil, he suggests, comes when good people allow bad things to happen...