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10 Cardozo Women's L.J. 659 (2003-2004)
Patriarchy on Lockdown: Deliberate Indifference and Male Prison Rape

handle is hein.journals/cardw10 and id is 667 raw text is: PATRIARCHY ON LOCKDOWN: DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE AND MALE PRISON RAPE OLGA GILLEIW Once an ex-con told me i was pretty, he said if i were in prison i'd be somebody's woman, i'd have to obey him and be faithful to him, if i got caught screwing with someone else, i'd be slit with a knife or a razor blade, slit until the blood from my faggot ass met the blood from my throat, bled until the redness became a poem and then a song, until a mute nation heard but they haven't heard and sometimes i realize they can't hear at all From Tommi, The Rape Poem, Washington State, 19761 INTRODUCTION This poem represents the brutal reality that many of America's prisoners face as they attempt to negotiate through and survive in the world's largest prison system.2 By the end of 2001 there were almost 2,000,000 prisoners being held in federal and state prisons as well as in localjails This staggering number demonstrates that one out of every one hundred forty people in the United States is behind bars.4 While it is a common belief that incarceration rates have always risen at a steady pace, radical changes in the criminal justice system beginning in the 1980s tell a very different story.5 As J.D. Candidate 2004, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Editor-in-Chief, Cardozo Women's Law Journal I would like to thank my husband, Antonio Vigil, for his support, comments and motivation. I would also like to thank my parents, Inna and Boris Giller, for their inspiration and encouragement. This note is dedicated to the memory of my grandmothers, Klavdia Vaynerman and Polina Giller who always loved and supported me without question. I Daniel Burton Rose, The Anti-exploits of Men Against Sexism, 1977-78, in PRISON MASCULINITIES 224 (Don Sabo et al. eds., 2001). 2 See HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, No ESCAPE: MALE RAPE IN U.S. PRISONS 27 (2001). No other country in the world is known to incarcerate as many people, and only a small handful of countries have anything approaching a similar rate of incarceration. Id. 3 See U.S. DEPARTMENT OFJUSTICE, BUREAU OFJUSTICE STATISTICS BULLETIN: PRISONERS IN 2001 1(2002). 4 See HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, supra note 2, at 27. 5 See id. at 28. These increases reflect an important overall shift in federal and state 659

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