Corrections officers of both sexes in the USA routinely extort sexual gratification in exchange for trivial privileges, and there is a universal sanction for guards watching women as they shower and defecate. The sale of women prisoners as forced prostitutes was found to be appallingly commonplace. Legislation criminalizing intercourse between corrections personnel and inmates is rare in the USA, and even more rarely enforced. And so on, ad nauseam. They also pointed out indignantly that the UN really only investigated women's-prison conditions in the states of California, Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota, New Jersey and New York.
Conditions are presumably much more wholesome in states like, for example, Alabama and Mississippi.
This alone ought to give Canadian immigration authorities reason to pause before sending Rene Boje back to the USA to face the music for medical marijuana. Copyright 2000 Renee Boje Legal Defense Fund. All rights reserved.