Lawsuit asks state to pay for inmate's sex-change operation- What do you think?

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[quote=tantalizingfemme;324809][QUOTE=Martina;324805] The issue behind this is that inmates should not have to fear rape in prison.

So, the answer is sex change surgery??? What about those who aren't trans? No resolution for them? It's okay for them to get raped? Maybe the answer is to find a solution for ALL inmates... not one particular population.

You are right on!

I agree- the premise (and I have thought this all along) in the article is faulty- does not hold water. There are many other things that can be done to prevent sexual assaults in prisons. These things have to do with how the facility is run and measures taken.

People that work in correctional institutions have expertise about this. Funds going to renovating prisons and utilizing the newer types of control mechanisms to keep both prisoners and staff safer are important. I don't know if we have any members that work in corrections, but it would be great to have info on the modern ways they are built and staffed in order to cut down (and even fully prevent) these assaults. Most of them happen because of outdated facilities it appears from what I have read. Actually, during one of my late night insomnia episodes I watched a program about how these things can be prevented by prison upgrades and building new prisons differently. Overcrowding is a problem as well.

Any inmate of any gender can be raped in prison. No one should have to fear rape, yet prison certainly isn't the only place it happens. Hell, a 16 year old HS girl was gang raped at a Prom in Richmond, CA.