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9 J. Offender Counseling, Services & Rehab. xi (1984-1985)

handle is hein.journals/wjor9 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface The perverse money economy in prison leads to inexpressible sexual perversity. The youngest, poorest inmates are frequently vic- tims of rape. For money, prisoners allow themselves to become male prostitutes as they allow themselves to act as guinea pigs for drug-company experiments. Some inmates who are raped literally lose their minds, others attempt suicide. Some inflict wounds on themselves in order to be transferred to a hospital where there is less chance that they will have to be coerced into some new sexual hu- miliation. This is all done with the knowledge of prison personnel; many are paid for their complicity. The origin of the sexual abera- tions that pervade all our prisons for the very young as well as for adults is to be found in the organization of our prisons. Prisoners are denied opportunities for sexual expression because of the nature of confinement rather than because a judge decrees that a sentenced person shall be subject to sexual denial and deprivation. No state or federal law has ever been passed requiring that as a con- dition of prison confinement a person shall be denied the right of sexual expression. If such a law were ever passed or a judge ever to deliver such a sentence, the action would be quickly declared uncon- stitutional. But such laws don't have to be proposed or considered by legislatures because sexual denial takes place automatically along with the many other deprivations that are not specified under law. Criminally violent homosexuality is widespread in prisons and condoned by officialdom because it constitutes still another area of behavior for arbitrary control and exploitation by the establishment. Those who commit forced attacks bribe their keepers to overlook the rules; the victims must bribe their keepers for protection and possible reassignment of cells. If consensual homosexuality among prisoners were legal, the prison establishment would find ways to circumvent the law since voluntary consent about anything in prison is intolerable to the mind of the establishment. In 1971 the Canadian government enacted a law which permits acts of homosexuality This article is adapted from the author's The Open Prison, NY: The Dial Press, 1973: and appears with the permission of the author.

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