"Rape Club" Prison in California: U.S. Gov't to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse

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[@11Mgreen]

Funded by viewers like me but some anonymous 'non-corporation' matches dollar for dollar... Rather say the truth "at least 50% comes for special interests" is it "..."? You are full of shit.

[@ab6565]

@@11Mgreen wow. there are wealthy people who care about giving a voice to these issues. you don't have to donate and you don't have to watch the videos.

[@lovely-mk4rt]

@@11Mgreen what ugly words. Let me guess you voted for treasonous trump?

[@MalSingh583]

EVERY SINGLE ONE of those cops need to be in jail!

[@nellyjane21]

They weren’t cops they were guards

[@velmascarborough7680]

​@@nellyjane21semantics. In order to be a guard in a CA prison you have to be a cop. I believe it's the same in the county jails

[@lameetcalice3845]

Simply by virtue of being a Statist. ;-) Malum In Se/Malum Prohibitum Nothing moral requires authority. Authority is the claim to the exclusive exemption to morality. It is a monopoly on violence. Violence is a violation because it is the initiation of aggression, not self-defense. Offense/defense are ontologically distinct. All crime has a legal equivalent (ie, taxation is extortion). Every government is founded on Ad Baculum. Petitio Principii can and will be used against you. Warren v. District of Columbia Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales DeShaney v. Winnebago County Lozito v. New York City Salinas v. Texas You are legally compelled via the logical fallacies Ad Populum, Ad Baculum and Ad Verecundiam to pay for protection that they are not legally obligated to provide. That's a mafia. Operation Flicker The highest Abrahamic value is Ignorance of Good and Evil. It's right there in Genesis. They worship Yaldabaoth, God of the Scapegoaters: God blames Man; Man blames Woman; Woman blames Serpent; Serpent blames God, more accurately - the Serpent defines God. God Condones Child Rape No.s 31: 17-18 God Condones Rape Deut. 22: 28-29 God Condones Abortion No.s 5: 11-31 Unquestioning Obedience to Government Rom.s 13: 1-7 Ritualistic classifying surgery as a means of psychic castration, like circumcision and sub-incision, are hallmarks of patriarchal culture, a demonstration to the young that the venerable old ones still wield the all-powerful knife - and the beginning of transsexualism. Those who do not perform the cult's rite can never enjoy full social status. Symbols of the castrated member, the tie and bow-tie, are mandatory accoutrements of the political wardrobe and phallic monuments are erected to commemorate the minds conquered long ago. Brute force is no longer necessary. The capitalist priest class of Psychiatry, working in tandem with the State bureaucracy, regulates and polices the new Restriction and gelding of desire. Psychiatrists, along with other legal arbiters, help to obscure justice with grey areas of intentionality, mental state, etc. Some mistake this as a system of Liberty, ignorant of the fact that Psychiatric Control is a cornerstone of the perfected Totalitarian State. All modern illnesses come from the absurd and tragic struggle of man's inability to bridle Nature. This dogma echoes perpetually, omnisciently by understanding voices in self-help books, billboards, radio commercials and television talk shows to convince the public to practice continual self-suppression and hormonal restraint. Any deviation is an indication of something severely wrong with the individual. Perhaps Lycanthropic Transformation Rites are in some way a Psychic Preparation for the millennial calamities that are thought to lie ahead. Legalism is a Language of Equivocations, a process of assimilation to violence and illogic. Etymology: government Gubernare: to control Mens/Mentis: mind culture Colere: to inhabit, to till Cult: collective mind -ure: process of civilize, etc. Civitas: city -ize: to do/to make like police, policy, politics, polite Polis: city authority Auctor: master, father, creator -ity: quality of religion Religare: to bind fast, to place an obligation on -ion: noun-forming suffix uniform Uni-: one Form: shape They lump themselves into a group. They want all the collective praise and none of the collective blame (No True Scotsman). If they were truly concerned for their reputation they wouldn’t wear a uniform. Badges are just snowflakes. Ad Baculum + Ad Populum = Democracy "Everything is metamorphosed into its opposite to perpetuate itself in its expurgated form. All the powers, all the institutions speak of themselves through denial, in order to attempt, by simulating death, to escape their real death throes. [...] For example: it would be interesting to see whether the repressive apparatus would not react more violently to a simulated holdup than to a real holdup. Because the latter does nothing but disturb the order of things, the right to property, whereas the former attacks the reality principle itself." - Jean Baudrillard (Simulacra & Simulation - 1981) "Our rulers, who rule our symbols, and so rule a symbolic class of life, impose their own infantilism on our instituitions, educational methods, and doctrines. This leads to maladjustment of the incoming generations which, being born into, are forced to develop under the un-natural (for man) semantic conditions imposed on them. In turn, they produce leaders afflicted with the old animalistic limitations. The vicious circle is completed; it results in a general state of human un-sanity, reflected again in our instituitions. And so it goes, on and on." - Alfred Korzybski (Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics - 1933) "I am a cosmopolitan." - Diogenes "If I could not be Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." - Alexander the Great "A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner (No Treason: Constitution of No Authority - 1867) "It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." - Étienne de la Boétie (Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un - 1577) "Leadership in government is political power, and political power is an official form of antagonizing the people. Politics are rules imposed upon the people. They have every man in a straight jacket and without a passport he cannot move a toe. In a free world, they violate the natural rights of every citizen. They have become the weapons of political despots and if you don't think as they think you're deprived of your passport." - Michael Chaplin as Rupert Macabee (A King in New York - 1957) "Imagine, if you will, a world filled only with criminals of whom there are two classes: those too honest to rationalize their crimes and the powerful who scapegoat them." - Rod Serling "Eye have no Moral Obligation to ask permission from the person to whom Eye Morally Object if Eye may exercise mEye Moral Objection." - Unknown

[@lameetcalice3845]

@@nellyjane21 That's called Trivial Objection, Honey. ;-) They may not police you, but they police the inmates. X'-D We all appreciate the effort you've made to remain Willfully Ignorant.

[@lameetcalice3845]

Simply by virtue of being a Statist. ;-) Malum In Se/Malum Prohibitum Nothing moral requires authority. Authority is the claim to the exclusive exemption to morality. It is a monopoly on violence. Violence is a violation because it is the initiation of aggression, not self-defense. Offense/defense are ontologically distinct. All crime has a legal equivalent (ie, taxation is extortion). Every government is founded on Ad Baculum. Petitio Principii can and will be used against you. Warren v. District of Columbia Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales DeShaney v. Winnebago County Lozito v. New York City Salinas v. Texas You are legally compelled via the logical fallacies Ad Populum, Ad Baculum and Ad Verecundiam to pay for protection that they are not legally obligated to provide. That's a mafia. Operation Flicker The highest Abrahamic value is Ignorance of Good and Evil. It's right there in Genesis. They worship Yaldabaoth, God of the Scapegoaters: God blames Man; Man blames Woman; Woman blames Serpent; Serpent blames God, more accurately - the Serpent defines God. God Condones Child Rape No.s 31: 17-18 God Condones Rape Deut. 22: 28-29 God Condones Abortion No.s 5: 11-31 Unquestioning Obedience to Government Rom.s 13: 1-7 Ritualistic classifying surgery as a means of psychic castration, like circumcision and sub-incision, are hallmarks of patriarchal culture, a demonstration to the young that the venerable old ones still wield the all-powerful knife - and the beginning of transsexualism. Those who do not perform the cult's rite can never enjoy full social status. Symbols of the castrated member, the tie and bow-tie, are mandatory accoutrements of the political wardrobe and phallic monuments are erected to commemorate the minds conquered long ago. Brute force is no longer necessary. The capitalist priest class of Psychiatry, working in tandem with the State bureaucracy, regulates and polices the new Restriction and gelding of desire. Psychiatrists, along with other legal arbiters, help to obscure justice with grey areas of intentionality, mental state, etc. Some mistake this as a system of Liberty, ignorant of the fact that Psychiatric Control is a cornerstone of the perfected Totalitarian State. All modern illnesses come from the absurd and tragic struggle of man's inability to bridle Nature. This dogma echoes perpetually, omnisciently by understanding voices in self-help books, billboards, radio commercials and television talk shows to convince the public to practice continual self-suppression and hormonal restraint. Any deviation is an indication of something severely wrong with the individual. Perhaps Lycanthropic Transformation Rites are in some way a Psychic Preparation for the millennial calamities that are thought to lie ahead. Legalism is a Language of Equivocations, a process of assimilation to violence and illogic. Etymology: government Gubernare: to control Mens/Mentis: mind culture Colere: to inhabit, to till Cult: collective mind -ure: process of civilize, etc. Civitas: city -ize: to do/to make like police, policy, politics, polite Polis: city authority Auctor: master, father, creator -ity: quality of religion Religare: to bind fast, to place an obligation on -ion: noun-forming suffix uniform Uni-: one Form: shape They lump themselves into a group. They want all the collective praise and none of the collective blame (No True Scotsman). If they were truly concerned for their reputation they wouldn’t wear a uniform. Badges are just snowflakes. Ad Baculum + Ad Populum = Democracy "Everything is metamorphosed into its opposite to perpetuate itself in its expurgated form. All the powers, all the institutions speak of themselves through denial, in order to attempt, by simulating death, to escape their real death throes. [...] For example: it would be interesting to see whether the repressive apparatus would not react more violently to a simulated holdup than to a real holdup. Because the latter does nothing but disturb the order of things, the right to property, whereas the former attacks the reality principle itself." - Jean Baudrillard (Simulacra & Simulation - 1981) "Our rulers, who rule our symbols, and so rule a symbolic class of life, impose their own infantilism on our instituitions, educational methods, and doctrines. This leads to maladjustment of the incoming generations which, being born into, are forced to develop under the un-natural (for man) semantic conditions imposed on them. In turn, they produce leaders afflicted with the old animalistic limitations. The vicious circle is completed; it results in a general state of human un-sanity, reflected again in our instituitions. And so it goes, on and on." - Alfred Korzybski (Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics - 1933) "I am a cosmopolitan." - Diogenes "If I could not be Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes." - Alexander the Great "A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner (No Treason: Constitution of No Authority - 1867) "It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." - Étienne de la Boétie (Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un - 1577) "Leadership in government is political power, and political power is an official form of antagonizing the people. Politics are rules imposed upon the people. They have every man in a straight jacket and without a passport he cannot move a toe. In a free world, they violate the natural rights of every citizen. They have become the weapons of political despots and if you don't think as they think you're deprived of your passport." - Michael Chaplin as Rupert Macabee (A King in New York - 1957) "Imagine, if you will, a world filled only with criminals of whom there are two classes: those too honest to rationalize their crimes and the powerful who scapegoat them." - Rod Serling "Eye have no Moral Obligation to ask permission from the person to whom Eye Morally Object if Eye may exercise mEye Moral Objection." - Unknown

[@nikanpecan]

Cruel and unusual punishment. How American

[@PrincessRuth-sj6lt]

Amen to that. It's patriarchal isnt it? I hate to say it but this is not enough to change the culture of hypersexualization in the United States. Be well aloha.

[@randeldaniel5437]

@@nikanpecan Kids for Cash. Complete Biden Pardon 😡

[@pberPSR]

they wete asking for it and liked it

[@wizardwyrm2805]

​@pberPSR you're asking to get doxxed

[@gangajal9292]

​@@pberPSRb......d!!!!! SHAME ON YOU

[@conscientiousobjector5988]

Only $116M for all 103 targets !? Ripoff.

[@Curt-Gevert]

Well, If you take out for Federal taxes, attorney's fees, California taxes, and other government grift, you're looking at each person getting maybe $180k to $200k.

[@FannieMay-or-not]

and don't forget the Big Guy always gets 10%​@@Curt-Gevert

[@rockon8174]

Lawyers get 40 percent of it, the State gets another 40 percent, so the women get 20 cents on every dollar. :/

[@rockon8174]

​@@Curt-Gevert less than that!

[@l.w.paradis2108]

​@Curt-Gevert This will not be taxable income. It isn't compensation for work (except in the perpetrators' eyes). The lawyers will get 30 to 40% of the recovery, so each will get a share of what's left, around 600 to 700k. Barely enough to start over upon release, if that. But not 200k to 300k, no.

[@DeborahTraeger]

We're paying taxes for these sex traffickers!!

[@vatorman]

You are correct, we can find them in the White House

[@Happy-uy5wc]

But, the sex offenders are the prison guards, not the inmates. 😢

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

It’s Rape, but not trafficking.

[@crptnite]

​@@JohnDoe-qz1qlit's trafficking because they're sent across state lines for this to occur.

[@lauriekash3980]

And police who murder and abuse Black people

[@femkevandelft177]

Canadian here. Add this egregious behaviour to the drive towards for profit prisons with little oversight. This is a national issue.

[@nellyjane21]

It’s a world wide issue

[@nellyjane21]

Imagine what this same system does to CHILDREN . Kids have little voices ..

[@crptnite]

​@@nellyjane21yeah this definitely isn't an isolated incident. Males should NEVER be allowed to work in prisons for women and vice versa.

[@lauriekash3980]

Private prison stocks going way up. Outrageous

[@lauriekash3980]

​@nellyjane21, exactly, they have no voices kids

[@jstone247]

Vile and disturbing.

[@ElijahCurry-q1h]

THIS IS HORRENDOUS

[@dagdahlo]

Are you surprised!

[@georgiakritikos4955]

LOCKDOWN 2020 NOT ONLY DUE TO DISEASE, VIOLENCE INCLUDED 🎬🎥💪☎️🪖STAND BY STAY TUNED 2ND LOCKDOWN 21ST-CENTURY

[@georgiakritikos4955]

​​@dagdahlo NO, NOT SURPRISED

[@Oo7Hola]

Can you just imagine what goes on nation wide in these prisons

[@riverv2069]

Sick!😢

[@AndNowIWrite]

For profit prisons need to be closed.

[@randomwalksatellite]

Shawshank Corporation. All the obtuse. None of the reform.

[@kathybradbury]

Once a prisoner knows those tasked with their care are willing to cross that line, there would never be a time they could put their guard down. This is PTSD X1000.

[@crptnite]

This is Domestic Terrorism.

[@JP-nz4em]

Those men are cowards for assaulting those who are not in position to fight back. What a shame!

[@buixote]

The perpetrators should face criminal charges, and have to pay damages too.

[@hopeleslydevoted6170]

And they call the U.S. a first world country

[@5islands]

More like 4th world

[@michaelscrivani2721]

Maybe the country is considered first world although the deep psyche problem involved in humanity which constantly rears it ugly head and repeats our failing’s is probably in the minus numbers . Humans are still intellectually crude.

[@620Karma]

Amen! Say it louder for those in the back

[@Tompilations-ri1kz]

Only surprising part of this story is that these stories don't pop out every week. look at how tyrant cops and security guards behave outside walls with bodycams. Now imagine such psychopaths having power over people behind walls and closed doors. Stanford experiment ring a bell?

[@cramsey8064]

Exactly

[@joyfullone3968]

What a terrible nightmare for these women!

[@brenkelly8163]

That sounds like a million dollars each, but it isn’t, due to class action lawyer payment. It is far too low and the warden needs jail time along with other participants. Bravo to the Coalition and the Women who stood up and spoke out.

[@Notitsisplz]

LITERALLY, WTF!? Everyday there’s another layer that gets to be seen by the public as to how grotesque, evil, and disgusting these protected pigs are.

[@melissabruhn1429]

Thank you Courtney Hanson. And thank you all survivors who bravely come forward and go on record. Keep on keeping on.

[@ryuuguu01]

This was a federal prison. State prison are generally worse than federal prison.

[@cascadianrangers728]

Our tax dollars hard at work

[@dontnoable]

Abuse of power comes as no surprise. Total solidarity with the prisoners

[@benjaminknol5990]

To know the moral compass of a society, look at its prisons.

[@caileach1]

Yes the very wealthy never get charged, yet alone spend a day in jail, never convicted hell they get rewarded, it is a joke- Justice truly does not exist!

[@judithmatthews8460]

There has to be mechanisms in place that allow for accountable. Those who are involved in abuse have to be held accountable under the law.

[@baseballruski6047]

accountable by whom? these are the enforcers of our laws that engaged in this barbarity

[@jojofreelancer1210]

Ex con here, from my experience these issues generally arise from the environment in which consensual ( se$)acts like this are going on that leads to this insanity. So yes the mechanism is 0 tolerance. I was on prison a guy had multiple wonen guards pregnant at sane time. I was there prior anything went,They got caught too in Baltimore. Once the dynamic is in play it's very very difficult to stop things behind walls without external force, there's too many ppl involved.

[@DeborahTraeger]

Shut down that prison! Those guards will go after the woman to shut them up!!

[@jollyrodger5319]

They already shut it down

[@XX-qd6ke]

Did you even bother to watch this video, or do you totally lack any comprehension skills???

[@swals05able]

The problem is that this isn’t the only prison where this is happening.

[@LeoBaker-ir3vo]

This is what American cops are like.

[@ladylaurus8493]

They opened the curtains on me when I was in Juvie as a kid…this is shocking to me…I’ve been through similar trauma but I was a child

[@Leo-z1v]

Better check the juvenile detention centers. Make sure the children are safe

[@HannahShayan-fd2rt]

@@Leo-z1v oh gosh. You are soo right. I have goosebumps, not in a good way!

[@Salina-qd6es]

Of course but hasn't always been the "case". Literally for decades and at the very least staff/higher ups, management knew. And no one was ever held accountable, investigated/charged. Whole "privatized" system is corrupt to the core.

[@FannieMay-or-not]

Check for the 1/2 million undocumented children that Biden/Harris lost letting them in with zero valid asylum claims

[@xa1531]

Imagine what they do to non-citizens who have little legal recourse

[@vansdan.]

god bless america :I

[@n0tfr0mth1sw0rld]

This is absolutely disgusting 🤬🤬🤬 How can we made to pay taxes for sexual abusers who are taking advantage of their power over prisoners? Wtf is wrong with this world? They need to be prosecuted and jailed themselves

[@catherinemitchell3721]

What sort of person wants to work at a prison in the 1st place???

[@VampireDrip]

Abolish for-profit prisons!

[@chrisbronson5341]

Sorry.........I am speechless . One of the fringe benefits of a job is to prey on the dignity of another human being ?

[@Bellaaaaaaaxxo]

I always tell people, CO’s are literally worse than the inmates. This isn’t a rarity- sexual assault by prison staff that it is, this is just a moment when it was caught. The warden should be in prison.. everyone involved should.. and male officers should NEVER be strip searching women and vice versa.

[@AmericanDegenerate]

Just the tip of the IceBerg. Most likely been going on for decades at various prisons nation wide. We treat people like human garbage and then expect them to just magically get better in an institution filled with violence.

[@jakesatov7454]

The most a prison has ever paid in a class-action - 116 million across 103 plaintifs - it really isnt that much, especially considering it's a multi-billion dollar industry. Just over a million each, how much do they even get to keep after taxes and legal fees? The feds owe them way more than that. Every plaintif should be able to have their life taken care of, and that of their next generation. At a minimum

[@davybean8981]

When a state imprisons you, it implicitly takes complete responsibility for your safety. If you are haremed by wardens or another prisoner the state is libel.

[@Pinkperle1]

All who were involved and knew should be dealt with………

[@darlenedowie2926]

Wow! This is heartbreaking and horrible that happened to these women.

[@magnump.i.7700]

Crappy cops, what a surprise

[@tommcfadden5232]

For profit cops.

[@tommcfadden5232]

For profit cops.

[@margotpreston]

Criminal cops.

[@h.neubert8770]

DISGUSTING

[@Naturalintelligence30]

Absolutely vile. We're supposed to trust these men in uniform 🥋 to protect us and serve us? I know not all of them are like that obviously but it's still scary to think about 😢😮

[@FollowTheJohn]

I hope you're investigating the private prisons. IE, Core Civic and GEO.

[@DebraLesso]

When you have been jailed in a correctional facility you are there "AS"punishment Not for "Additional" punishment but rather for "Rehabilitation" . This is how the correctional system "should" be run but it is not. Inmates are given additional punishment and No rehabilitation . So that being said hown do you expect anyone to fit into society after all this?????? Major Reform Needed !!!!!!!

[@nearby222]

Reform? Nah abolition at this point.

[@donald1576]

Every single prison in america, federal or not should be investigated with a fine tooth comb.

[@BrianButterworth-s4z]

Wishes for healing for Aimee.

[@nightowl6260]

Why aren't the perps in prison???

[@seph5911]

Prisons are made to beat down on already at risk populations, not for any form of true justice as we assume

[@ReginaTose]

When I was... In regular prison time, I intentionally broke the rules and acted crazy.. so I could get put in maximum security where there was no point of contact with anybody even the guards just because of these problems. The exception being when they cuff. to go to court and they have to cuff you first, but then there are always other guards around.

[@Gregknows-uj8gg]

It is not the Government who is paying the Money! It is the tax payers!

[@rb-pk8ds]

Maybe the taxpayers ought to be putting some serious thought into who they elect, and ensuring they are clear about what they expect those people who are elected to be paying for with their tax dollars. Maybe.

[@Gregknows-uj8gg]

@rb-pk8ds For sure!

[@simplytruth9729]

Where were the "good guards" in those prisons that could have blown the whistle??? Men, we need you to step up.

[@christophergreen6595]

Police are a gang, prison jobs are their initiation. No good men allowed.

[@gracey3282]

There wasn't any. They all participated in the acts. Cheered each other on and took turns.

[@sapmolina]

What makes you think they didn’t? They suffered too

[@shawntruckingwithbs5302]

Not all guards are men lots of women guards there so rethink before you post

[@sapmolina]

What makes you think they didn’t “good” guards didn’t? If this happened to inmates what do you think happened to them. Don’t be crazy

[@msKita43]

No amount of money can give you peace after you've been violated

[@HannahShayan-fd2rt]

Do the wardens now qualify for the future staff in Washington? 🤔

[@dw3403]

As a republican for sure.

[@xONYXo1]

Trump will probably pardon him and then make him an ambassador or something

[@Lucian_Media]

The power and strength that is evident from these women (inc those not in this interview) after the horrendous treatment they have gone through is admirable. Just agreeing to be part of the lawsuit takes courage. I hope their stories give other women courage and changes a lot about the prison complex.

[@hbt739]

Whats with rest of the wardens?

[@KamalaWorth-xm7wh]

Bless you Courtney 🙏♥️

[@MarshallMathers-s8c]

Wow Sick sad world 😷 😞 🌎

[@SaraKhan-bb6fj]

Why were men hired to run a women's prison?

[@sandralarry650]

Even if there's woman running the prison the same thing happens.

[@Happy-uy5wc]

Maybe its women sexually abusing women?

[@jammie2475]

@@sandralarry650 not at all. Look at the stats before you open your mouth.

[@andromedaspark2241]

Conservatives will lose their minds (unnecessarily) about transwomen in women's bathrooms, but about male guards in women's prisons? Not a peep.

[@ullebor]

@@sandralarry650 It's a problem with hiring psychopaths.

[@darthphilfy]

Honestly $116 million isn't that much once you split it between all the victims. Pay the lawyers and taxes. It isn't as simple as many people believe.

[@hanknyc]

Amy, the lawyers will take most of the money.

[@mamatrain100]

Its horrific. Evil humans in positions of power. Is this a private partnership prison?

[@miapapa1955]

Women should run these prisons; this is costing taxpayers to much.

[@carissafisher7514]

How about just normal people?

[@ChooseCompassion]

WTF?!?!? Who are we????? 🤬

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

Animals

[@Edward-g1q5d]

"All prisons". Believe it.

[@fernandoBOT]

let this radicalize you further rather than lead you to despair

[@DANAE-fk9zm]

I was 17 worked at Sizzler in Dublin. My boss.....got kicked out of Foster Home. Have similar situations happening. Dealing with MEN IN POWER

[@King-oj8hr]

$116 million isn’t shxt when you consider there are over 100 women who filed the lawsuits🤦🏽‍♂️ why act like this is some huge victory!

[@LindaG858]

Hopefully, ALL those guilty of this abuse of women are behind bars!??

[@412blue15203]

Every single one of those guards and the warden need to serve their time in general population!

[@NadiaAmra-w4m]

They should be held accountable

[@georgiakritikos4955]

LOCKDOWN 2020 NOT DUE TO DISEASE, VIOLENCE INCLUDED 🎬🎥💪☎️🪖STAND BY STAY TUNED 2ND LOCKDOWN 21ST-CENTURY

[@cynthialester8348]

Was it run by a corporation? If so the corporation should pay and be put out of business.

[@coleengoodell7523]

Male corrections officers have absolutely no business anywhere near where female inmates are showering or using the bathroom and should never be allowed to be alone with them anywhere in the facility. There is no reason that male corrections officers should be allowed to watch female prisoners showing or using the bathroom. There is no reason for a male officer to be allowed in the female parts of the prisons to be alone with females. Same goes with female officers. Just because you've committed a crime and most are without victims, doesn't mean you should lose your dignity and rights to modesty. Not to mention freedom from SA. Prison culture and prisons for profit must change. It's destroying lives for ill gotten gain and the lives of future generations. We as a nation need to focus on the actual illnesses that can be cured, rather than the symptoms that can be managed and treated. A hopelessness has gripped our nation. A sense that you will never get ahead by design. That unless you come from family wealth or have a great intellectual gift, there is no future in our nation now. "Where there is no vision, the people perish". It's screaming at us on our streets. As the rich get richer and get away with horrible crimes, the poor get poorer and dare not step out of line. Less they become just a commodity in the prisons for profit industry.

[@johnsviewsonspewtube]

My mother was in this prison in the late 80s and early 90s. She never spoke about any of this, but I always suspected something. This sort of validates those suspicions. I am thankful she is no longer alive to have to relive anything, especially if she was a victim

[@nedludd7622]

In France, the court has just found all 51 defendents guilty in a rape trial. The rapes were organized by the husband over many years. The sentences go from a few years to 20 for the husband. Would a US court have the courage to do that?

[@ullebor]

Considering less than 3% of rapists see prosecution, that's all you need to know about the US.

[@heredianna2496]

You think France is amazing for that. The maximum sentence for any rape in France is 15 years but they got way less (the husband got more because he is the one who organized a group rape and he is her husband so you get more for that byt still the maximum sentence possible is 20 years only for having his wife drugged and raped for years ) and although there were video evidence for each one of them most of them just got a couple of years some one year of jail time, 6 are now already out today.. There is nothing to be amazed about... Plus, the trial was a joke. They rushed through it because they don't have the money and the time. Many of them were found to also own pe...phile content on their computers but they did not even get investigated or charged for that. No time. Yes, they were found guilty with ridiculous sentences, and only because there were video evidence for every single one of them. So they had to be found guilty. In other cases, convicted rapists often don't even step one foot in jail when the victim is even lucky that there is a trial. When there is a trial for rape in the US people get more jail time when found guilty. Both countries are a joke in that regard and yes France is a joke when you know how it works so don't use it as an example.

[@Cuteglamshopper]

And let’s talk about how many of these women have been previously sexually assaulted in their previous life that had probably led them committing criminal behavior due to trauma and abuse. And I agree these are happening across the US nation. I can’t imagine what goes on in Iran, India, Afghanistan and other countries where these issues will never shine a light of day. No amount of money can take away this trauma away.

[@Eeclon]

Is a shame in USA.

[@Davidpath9127]

who will compensate the Palestinians prisoners who were sexually abused ? Justice should be served?

[@Curt-Gevert]

No one is reporting that, maybe check your facts

[@gounch.1186]

@@Curt-Gevert. yes they are moron

[@Davidpath9127]

"Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war" In its legally mandated June 2024 investigative report, the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (CoI) concluded: "The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated against Palestinians since 7 October across the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) indicate that specific forms of Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are part of Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operating procedures.

[@Davidpath9127]

In August 2024, Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem released a report on systematic Israeli abuse, torture, sexual violence and rape of Palestinian detainees, calling the Israeli prison system a "network of torture camps.

[@bernadettelarkin2933]

This is a sad fact on the abuse in Israel prisons...the truth will eventually come out like the sick gas chambers in WWIi...

[@marcela3124]

This is so horrible. What a nightmare for these women. Im so glad the truth came out.

[@soulestate_5]

Sounds like hell

[@bpalpha]

Beyond obscene. Only love heals.

[@niravrasengupta7374]

This is literally the worst country in the world.

[@MC-cz5qd]

Unfortunately far from it. So you can imagine how bad it is in other countries.

[@ullebor]

@@MC-cz5qd Yet the US incarceration rate is the highest in the world.

[@persoro4015]

@@ulleborThat’s not true anymore

[@SixOneNiner23]

Insanity!

[@Pinkperle1]

How did this go on for so long!!!

[@RoyalPurpleStar]

Wow, this is so outrageous and disgusting!

[@jlfoodforest]

I'm so angry that this happened to you 😢😢😢 hugs, love you

[@LazyEyePolitics]

Who would have thought? THIS IS GOING TO GET WORSE with Trump. He would probably go to these jails to get laid himself.

[@stayfree101]

Lol what the hell are you talking about about... That is sick and he is not desperate. Have you seen his wife?? Sounds like you might be jealous that YOU can't do this.

[@MC-cz5qd]

@@stayfree101You not read news at all? Trump is a convicted s*xual predator. And that was only one case.

[@jammie2475]

@@stayfree101 You're probably just like Trump. Twisted and sick.

[@dw3403]

​@@stayfree101 Did you forget he was chasing a porn star while his wife was pregnant? You can't polish a turd.

[@andromedaspark2241]

@stayfree101 WTF, since when does being married stop men from SAing someone they have under their power. Trump has assaulted women. You can listen to the recording of him talking about "inspecting" Miss America dressing areas as they were changing, grabbing women by the 😿. He's an adjudicated rapist. Don't act like you don't know exactly why.

[@DaxBruce-kv4vf]

When prisons go from reform to punishment, in order to “punish “ prisoners we have to treat them worse than society at large. This is simply slightly worse than women are treated in our country. 🤗

[@Astaroth_Belial]

There’s people out there who will deny or even advocate on behalf of the warden and prison staff that carried out these abuses.

[@LifeIsForEmos8D]

Shameful that people like this are given uniforms and privelege of power over such vulnerable population. Is there any justice left in the justice system?

[@jodi-bethfelton3696]

What happened to the perpetrators???? Also, it's blood money. Any of these women would gladly give it back to go back to before they were assaulted. Size Orman gives tips on handle such sums of money where grief is involved. I'm so sorry this happened to you and continues to happen. Thank-you for your courage in speaking out and fighting back. ❤ 🙏

[@waynefoote3781]

WHAT happens to the PERPETRATORS?? Are they PROSECUTED? All of this money and a MESSAGE needs to be sent BIG TIME!! So this can be STOPPED!!

[@judywilkerson8682]

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton- but quoted often by my husband. It seems to fit the men in this situation. My heart breaks for the women that endured this abuse.

[@erinstites1452]

That which is out of integrity in all institutions is being brought to attention of collective to be healed. Abuse and violence and greed is being brought to light. Thanks to the women for the courage to speak out and act.

[@gregaiken1725]

clean this swamp up.

[@elmiguel1405]

The human race is not doing so good at the moment

[@TerriAnnNiemeier-dy3no]

Crazy as hell, and trouble is Bad Judges, Bad Cops, Bad Citizens

[@Leithyl]

It is so good to see just how righteous and Christian the US systems really are. It's in great shape to dictate to the world on how to behave. Sick sick systems. Must be under an israeli mentorship programe. Brave Women who stood up for this. You have my full support. NZ

[@noirmanoir1061]

Disgusting. I believe every word she says and I bet it's much worse than that.

[@ESO529]

Why do the American taxpayers agree to pay this money?! Is this American "democracy"?

[@mariaballester636]

'Baile Atha Cliath' The Irish for Dublin, from where i was born and live again,should change its name from English to I rish. Every time Dublin was mentioned in this vile news brought shame to me here, why? I don't know....the linking of such vile humans probably from the town shames me. I believe you could cleanse some aspects by such a move. Love and kindness to those survivors. We have plenty to be ashamed of here vis a vis the magdalin launderies, the church, the brutal beatings from "christian" brothers, from which I survived. GOD bless you ladies. Love from Ireland

[@IntraVortex]

Incredibly brave!

[@shellih8302]

This is America. Do not lecture me about anything going on in any other country when this is how the USA treats its citizens.

[@Greatwolf615]

Land of the free home of the brave what a joke

[@ronstephen-wy4ib]

You forgot the small asterisk * some restrictions may apply