While many individuals richly deserve incareration, they have the right and we have the obligation to protect them from harm. We do not do that. In general this only happens to men. Women are better protected and guarded in our jails. When a few women were strip searched there was a nationwide uproar.
Men are strip searched by women guards constantly and no one cares or objects.
While this is an American site, the rape, assault and beatings of male prisoners in Canada is just as serious . Corrections Canada officials from the top down to the individual guards tolerate, ignore and sometimes condone and encourage this violence. Guards are often the perpetrators and inflict mindless cruelty and savage beatings on helpless prisoners. Prisoners have a right to be protected from prison rape, assaults and the rampant gratutious violence commonly found in Canadian jails at all levels. As part of that commitment, these pages necessarily include sexually-explicit language that some may want to avoid.