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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Legalized Slavery: The Prison Industrial Complex: Rape is Worse In Jails and Prisons!

From the Book Corporate Conspiracies written by Richard Belzer a.k.a Munch (I pray I spelled his name right); from Law and Order, S.V.U. I want to ask God to bless you for having the balls to write the books you have. Of all the books I have read about government and corporate corruption, none have been more spot-on than this one. To find out the truth about prison human trafficking is something I have been talking about for years. Rape is real in jails and prisons, and everyone turns their heads. I know they did that to me in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Yes, the subject is uncomfortable and makes us uncomfortable to talk about. Therefore, we, as a society, tend to look the other way. And worse - we even tend to joke; about it, in a feeble effort to allay our discomfort. One needs to look on further than television and movies to see a constant stream of questionable jokes about the certainty of gang rape in jail and prison. Seemingly, folks consider it somehow "OKAY" - even funny - until You are raped, and no one is listening to YOU), that a person incarcerated by the STATE (Dirty Judges are involved and sell inmates to the highest bidder) will also be subject to sexual assault during their incarcerated. "Don't bend over to pick up the soap" and other such "One-liners" are a part of a regular diet of the attempt at sick humor about a very unfunny topic: RAPE - But it is still rape. How can we joke about that? You are a society, that seems to have a brutal double standard on that subject. If it becomes known that a church member rapes altar boy - who are in a relatively helpless position - is sodomized by a priest, then there is a massive public outcry. But if prisoners are regularly sodomized, while under the auspices of the poorly termed "correctional system," the great majority of the people pay no attention to it whatsoever.; Is that acceptable? Is that morally just? Correctional System is very real! Well, if anybody actually believes that, then you'd better read up on your history, boys n girls. I don't tolerate rape at all! Why do we (YOU) tolerate that? We are not to tolerate rape if it happens to joggers running through a city park. We need to help rape victims in jails and prisons, just like we do joggers and altar boys. inherit;" of prison rape are at high risk of becoming victims again, largely because they may be too fearful to reach out for help, or when they do, they find services specific to their needs are unavailable. They often fear experiencing further trauma and shame if they come forward, or retaliation. If they choose to tell someone, their cries are always ignored or disregarded. When victims of prison rape are released — as the majority of inmates are — and rejoin our communities, they often suffer long-term effects from their victimization. Prison rape has gone largely unaddressed by programs intended to help communities, correctional institutions, and lawmakers in this country. When prison rape is mentioned in the media or by the general public, it is often in the form of a joke or jest. The passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in 2003 requires all correctional facilities (for adults and juveniles) to address sexual assault and harassment. "Unlike in other US states, the prison system of Pennsylvania is well not managed and well funded. This comes down to several reasons, which include ensuring access to education of inmates, maintenance of prisons, manageable size of prisons, and PADOC officials being trained to exhibit professionalism when handling offenders. However, this is not to overlook the facts as several prisons in Pennsylvania do not have friendly conditions and require the dire need of attention. According to a recent report, the number of There are several reasons which make prisons worse in Pennsylvania.

“The basic problem confronting the world today… is the preservation of human freedom for the individual and consequently for the society of which he is a part.” 
– Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the first major achievements of the United Nations, the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, occurred on December 10, 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt, a lifelong champion of civil and human rights chaired the committee that was formed to draft the Declaration. 

Eleanor Roosevelt’s passion for humanitarian issues preceded her commitment to creating a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Where her husband, President Franklin Roosevelt, exercised restraint when it came to human rights issues at home and abroad, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch, vocal supporter of these causes. 

The evolution of an outspoken human rights advocate

Historians often criticize Franklin Roosevelt’s approach to the pre-World War. Many make the case that the President should have used a stronger hand to influence Congress and the State Department, which strictly adhered to America's conservative immigration laws and quotas. 

But much of the United States supported these stringent laws—between WWI and WWII, anti-Semitism peaked in the country, and the public favored isolationism regarding international affairs. 

Like many people of her time, Eleanor Roosevelt also expressed casual anti-Semitic sentiments in her younger years. However, according to biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook, “Stunned by the depths of the problem in America, by 1935 she spoke out against anti-Semitism and race hatred wherever she found it in the United States.” 

Eleanor Roosevelt became a passionate advocate for Jewish refugees and personally intervened in a number of cases to assist them. In fact, the Visual History Archive includes testimonies from Holocaust survivors who speak about reaching out to her.* 

At a meeting of the Good Neighbor Committee on the Émigré and the Community in 1939, the First Lady warned the 700 attendees, “We must not let ourselves be moved by fear in this country. We have seen that happen too many times in other countries. Sometimes I worry about the possibility that we will follow their example.”

According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roosevelt’s greatest regret at the end of her life was not using her influence over the President to rescue more refugees. 

The First U.S. Delegation of the United Nations

They established the United Nations in 1945, two months after the end of the Second World War, to promote international cooperation and to prevent such a devastating conflict in the future. As a result of her devotion to humanitarian causes – and to some extent her husband’s instrumental part in laying the foundation for the organization – Roosevelt was appointed by President Harry Truman to serve on the first U.S. Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly.

In her syndicated “My Day” column, Roosevelt responded to the appointment on December 22, 1945. She stated her priorities for her new role, including a sense of responsibility, especially toward women and veterans of the war, as well as her desire to help foster “a real goodwill for all peoples throughout the world.” 

“Willy nilly, every one of us cares more for his own country than for any other. That is human nature,” she observed, adding:

We love the bit of land where we have grown to maturity and known the joys and sorrows of life. The time has come however when we must recognize that our mutual devotion to our own land must never blind us to the good of all lands and of all peoples.

In the end, as Wendell Willkie [the Republican presidential candidate who ran against Franklin Roosevelt when he sought his third term] said, we are ‘One World’ and that which injures any one of us, injures all of us. Only by remembering this will we finally have a chance to build a lasting peace.

When the U.N. created the Commission on Human Rights in 1946, Roosevelt won a unanimous election to serve as the committee’s chair. The commission was charged with examining, monitoring, and publicly reporting on human rights violations around the world. Additionally, the commission established the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Drafting Committee. 

Also chaired by Roosevelt, it was up to this subcommittee to define the rights to which it inherently entitled all human beings.   

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

As the world came to terms with a full understanding of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as noted in its preamble, strove to “[reaffirm] faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person." 

Over the course of two years, the drafting committee – representing 56 nations around the world – endured intense negotiation and ideological differences to hammer out the 30 articles that eventually comprised the landmark agreement.

As chair of the drafting committee, Roosevelt played a fundamental role in ensuring the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Her speech, The Struggle for Human Rights, was delivered in September 1948 in Paris, with the aim to encourage U.N. member states to cast votes to support the document. 

Roosevelt implored the audience:

The future must see the broadening of human rights throughout the world. People who have glimpsed freedom will never be content until they have secured it for themselves. In the truest sense, human rights are a fundamental object of law and government in a just society. Human rights exist to the degree that they are respected by people in relations with each other and by governments in relations with their citizens.

While the Declaration of Universal Human Rights is not a legally binding document, it has served as a basis for national and international human rights laws and conventions since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. 

Resources: 

*Visual History Archive

Survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides have shared their stories and experiences in a collection of 53,000 two-hour audio-visual interviews with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History. 

I honored ProQuest to be in partnership with the USC Visual History Archive to offer this material in its entirety to a broader audience and to contribute archival-quality transcripts of all the testimonies. 

Watch the videos, and learn more

History Vault 

Module: Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990. Learn more.

Ebooks:

Instead. No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin | A 15-minute Summary & Analysis, edited by Instaread , 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central. 

Emblidge, David, and Eleanor Roosevelt. My Day, edited by David Emblidge, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Da Capo Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Lichtman, Allan J., and Richard Breitman. FDR and the Jews, edited by Allan J. Lichtman, and Richard Breitman, Harvard University Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central.

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Historical Newspapers:

“Mrs. Roosevelt charges intolerance drive against refugees and seeks fund sources.” (1939, Nov 29). New York Times (1923-Current File). pp. 1.  

Kenton, John. Special to THE NEW, YORK TIMES. (1948, Dec 11). “Human rights declaration adopted by U.N. assembly.” New York Times (1923-Current File).pp. 1. 

Learn more.

Human Rights Online:

Alexander Street’s research and learning database provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection features primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types, including 151 hours of streaming video and 60,249 pages of text materials. 


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