Against Prisons: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

Prison is a single sex institution. This is not a necessary condition of the deprivation of liberty, as proven by the Russian Gulag system or, to cite another example, Bolivia's Palmasola prison village. In Europe and many other countries, though, the idea of whole families living together with the inmate seems strange and unjust towards the innocent but imprisoned family members. On the other hand, the more common single-sex method of confinement of the European and North American style imposes an enforced celibatary life-stlye on prisoners. It means that male and female prisoners alike depend on masturbation and/or individuals of their own sex for their respective activities. This in turn to leads to (voluntary and involuntary) prison homosexuality. Single sex prisons are equal to a considerable amount of suffering through prison rape and abuse. Studies from the U.S. suggest that every year four to five prisoners out of every 100 are being raped or otherwise abused by fellow prisoners (not to mention guards; NYRB). In spite of some mostly half-hearted attempts to counteract this tragedy by granting vacations from prison or long-time visits by spouses or families this collateral effect of imprisonment persists all over the word, and it stays not only an evident source of transmission of infectuous diseases like HIV, but also a serious and permanent violation of elementary human rights.