| United States has criticized for having huge number | | | | prisons. Female inmates are victim of rape, sexual |
| of prisoners and increasing number of female | | | | extortion by prison officials. Correctional officials |
| prisoners; in 2004 United States had highest | | | | retaliate against women who complain about sexual |
| percentage of prisoners in the world. There were | | | | assault and harassment, and they threat women's |
| more than 2.2 million in prisons or jails, or 737 per | | | | children and visitation rights as a means of silencing |
| 100,000 population, or roughly 1 out of every 136 | | | | the women. Sometimes segregation or long staying in |
| Americans. | | | | jail is the punishment of those who speak anything |
| Human Rights Watch complains about this huge | | | | about sexual abuse. |
| population of prisoners, it believes that this rate of | | | | Also, sexual abuse has occurred by inmates. In this |
| incarceration damages individuals, families, | | | | cases officials do not attention to provide prisoners |
| communities and strength of the nation. In any case | | | | security, they do not answer to complaints of |
| the issue that I am going to focus here is not the | | | | unwanted sexual activity. Mostly, they condoned |
| high rate of prisoners but, it is their rights and their | | | | inmate-on-inmate abuse. Totally, being a female |
| condition in prison. Federal and state laws established | | | | prisoner in united stares is an awful experience. |
| rights of prisoners as well as other humans. Although | | | | Women are sexually abused, they are suffered by |
| they do not have full constitutional rights but, the | | | | officials or other inmates, complaints are not |
| constitution protects them from cruel and unusual | | | | effective, officials are not accountable for their crime |
| punishment. They are protected against unequal | | | | because they have more power than prisoners. |
| treatment on the basis of race, sex, and creed. In | | | | Some times guilty officials are just sent to other |
| fact, prisoners' right is one of noticeable part of | | | | places to work, not have been punished. All these |
| human rights which is expected to be provided based | | | | show that the authorities fail to manage effective |
| upon the constitution of United States as the first | | | | policy on sexual abuse. |
| defender of human rights. But, the government of | | | | Noticeably, one of the most important elements in |
| United States does not concentrate to execution of | | | | sexual misconduct in United States prisons for |
| human rights in prison. According to senior counsel of | | | | women is that the government permits male to be |
| the US Program at Human Rights Watch in condition | | | | employees and guards in women prisons. In this |
| that approximately one in 20 prisoners being raped or | | | | position, prisoners who are condemned for breaking |
| sexually abused, it is clear that prison authorities do | | | | others' rights, loose their primary rights, they loose |
| not take enough action to prisoners' rights. | | | | their physical security. Sexual abuse threats women |
| Certainly prison rape is not inevitable but, Human | | | | lives it devastates human spirit. It leads to |
| Rights Watch concerns on prisoners' rape in United | | | | depression, and shattering loss of self-esteem. |
| States because the rate of reported Sexual abuse | | | | Under both international and national law prisons are |
| and rape in United States prisons are unusual and | | | | required to prohibit torture and other cruel, inhuman, |
| extraordinary. | | | | or degrading treatment or punishment and to ensure |
| There are 148,000 women in state and federal | | | | that such abuse is investigated and punished. |