Media Article on Genders and Crimes
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Added on 2020-02-24
Media Article on Genders and Crimes
Added on 2020-02-24
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Running Head: GENDER AND CRIMESBodies on the inside: Gender and prisonName of Student Name of University
GENDER AND CRIMES2Bodies on the inside: Gender and prisonA media article was published in news.com.au on April 18, 2016 which reported about the torture that was faced by a transgender woman in a male prison of Australia. According to the report all the transgender women who contradict the laws are sent to male prisons as they are not considered as female at all. The victim in the instant case was asked to strip and was raped for more than 2000 times during her detention in the prison. Another transgender women flew to US for seeking asylum after she got tortured and sexually molested. In US she was kept detained with male prisoners where again she was sexually assaulted by the guards of the immigration (Lambert 2016).Yet another trans- woman who was kidnapped, tortured and sexually assaulted by gang members in her native State escaped to US where she was kept in detention facility with men. The guards in the detention facility failed to protect her from being harassed and sexually assaulted (Lambert 2016).According to the Coordinator of LGBT Community Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, Adam Frankel a number of women from transgender community who come to US to seek asylum after being abused in their native territories are kept detained in the immigration facility with men where they are exposed to more risk of sexual abuse and violence by the other male detainees and the detaining authorities. The abuse is of the same nature which they tried to escape from their native territories. They also have to sleep and bathe in the same place as other male detainees. Further they are often exposed to embarrassing and offensive strip examination
GENDER AND CRIMES3by male authorities and the guards fail to protect them from the abuse (Human Rights Watch 2016).According to a report of Human Rights Watch the present detention rules of the US immigration centers require the detention of trans- women in male detention facility. As per the estimates of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of US around sixty- five trans- women are detained in immigration facilities of US. Further the report also says that women of transgender community have to live in poverty, and experience violence and discriminatory behavior. According to observations made by a number of other studies trans- women who have a darker complexion or are poor and deprived have to face oral, corporal and carnal abuse during the period of detention. They also face hurdles in getting access to hormonal replacement therapy and HIV treatment (Stauffer 2016). According to some academic writers violence and male domination has been accepted as a culture in male prisons and male detention facilities in United States. Many countries deny to accept the fact that violence and rape takes place in their prison while many other do not accept violence and rape in male prisons and have made laws to punish such offences. In some other countries sexual act and sexual violence are considered as common trend in prisons and detention facilities. The sexual acts taking place inside the prisons require an improved consideration for reasons like the occurrence of sexual violence, the threat of HIV infection and also the possibility of the restoration of ex- offenders (Sim 1995).It is assumed that most of the sexual acts occurring in detention centers are a result of forceful sexual activity rather than a consensual one. But on the contrary some texts are of the
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