How to Facilitate Rape

**Warning: This essay discusses the issues of rape in prison, with examples. Read with caution and compassion**

I really DON’T want to write this essay, there are many other topics I want to discuss, but for the life of me, right now, this HAS to be written, somebody needs to hear what is going on.

If you’re new to my writings, I have over 600 essays floating out there about my experiences while in a federal prison, currently at the time, at USP Tucson. I have pointed the finger at the staff of numerous violations, from stealing mail to torturing inmates in the Special Housing Units and may other improper and illegal acts.

Rape is one of them.

For me to get into this, I need to take my time and hopefully create a compelling argument to you that prisons like USP Tucson are directly responsible for prison rape, and I have examples to prove it. But I want to try to give you other angles to help you understand the demonic way prisons cover up for such tragic situations.

Now, some of you reading this might have the attitude that perhaps inmates deserve whatever happens to them. Some are of the belief that “then they should have never broken the law”.

You wanna go there; game on, here’s an example:

A young kid gets caught up with a group of guys and they steal some stuff from a store. One of the guys in the group has a gun, so they all get charged and arrested. While in jail, the other guys pin the blame on the young kid (let’s say he’s 19) and he ends up getting time for it. even though he never touched a gun in his life.

The kid does not have money, so he gets an appointed lawyer, who really could care less if the kid gets sentenced or not, so he does not give his best effort to represent him (this is called Ineffective Assistance of Counsel). The kid gets 10 years and goes to prison.

Because he is a young person, he immediately becomes a target for bigger and older inmates, who have been deprived of sexual activity because of their length of time in prison. Inside of the first month of him being in prison, he is cornered in a cell by three larger inmates and is raped repeatedly.

Had the kid had a decent representation, he would likely not have even gone to prison, let alone a higher-security one. Because the system failed him, he was sent to a prison and put in the worst possible position for protection.

What if that was your son? What if that was your brother? What if that was someone you knew in high school? What if that was someone from your church? What if it was someone you KNEW?

I would like to make my point before going into this discussing that prison rape happens to someone who has a loved one out there, and nearly every time, that victim feels that he cannot tell anyone about it, let alone loved ones on the outside. And because of that, prison staff uses that against him, to keep the victim quiet, or else subject him to more rape.

And these victims often are not raped once. it happens MANY times.

I am very angry typing this, because although it never happened to me, I know several that it DID happen to, to which I will be sharing in this short series. At the moment, I don’t know how long this will go, because I’m writing on a strict time frame of 30 minutes per session, so I have to be concise but fast, so forgive any errors.

So, the basis of this essay comes from a discussion I had with a guy today (August 6th, 2025) in the Law Library, here at USP Tucson. I have known for a while that staff here facilitate rape and have sexually assaulted inmates; I have known that for quite a while, but I had not written on it until having a discussion with a guy that had been trying for YEARS to file a lawsuit against staff here at USP Tucson and particular officers (DARE me to give names) for sexual assault.

The guy I talked to, let’s call him “Tom”, told me about his lawsuit, which USP Tucson seems to continue to drag, is seemingly getting nowhere, because of red tape. He shows me all the info, the emails to the Warden and Associate Wardens, to no avail, and all the work he’s put in because of his incident:

In 2019, Tom was put in the SHU (Special Housing Unit) here at USP Tucson, and certain officers (PLEASE dare me to give names) retaliated on him because of his charge. So, they put him in a cell with a person known to be a sexual predator. Once Tom was in the cell with the inmate, let’s call him “Max”, Max told him that he had sexually assaulted prior cellmates, and that Tom was specifically put in that cell so that Max could sexually assault him… rape him.

When you are in the SHU (Special Housing Unit) here at USP Tucson, you are like in a dungeon. There are virtually no officers to come check on you, although they are supposed to. And in truth, there should be NO double cells in the SHU anyway. The SHU is for inmates who break the rules, or are disruptive to the general population, or under investigation. But in any case, you have to separate these individuals from the general population, for safety.

That means a person in the SHU deserves just as much protection as anyone one else. Some of the most vicious crimes in prison happen in the SHU (or in other prisons, called “isolation” or “the hole”). This is because officers rarely do their rounds, so a person stuck with a violent inmate is in imminent danger.

Years ago, I wrote about an inmate that was murdered in the SHU because staff forced an inmate to cell with a guy who made it clear, that if that man was put in his cell, he would be killed… and he was.

This essay, as I write it, will not protect officers from their duty. I am not going soft on this, because people have died because staff at USP Tucson facilitated murder, then hide like cowards behind legal red tape. The same applies with rape; this happens FAR more than the public realizes, but for the most part, the victims are afraid to tell their loved ones, thinking that they may think less of them, or be too stressed to deal with it.

How would you feel if a person you care about called and told you, “I got some bad news I need to tell you… I was raped several times by guys here, and I don’t think I can live with it anymore. Its better if I kill myself than go through that again… I love you, goodbye.”

For some people, it WAS the last thing they heard from their loved ones. Sometimes there was no last message…

We’ve got to stop this, we have to do something about this. So, I have to write this, and get this out, so that we can do something about this. I’ll continue this with you in the next part. Stay tuned.

I hate writing things like this, but it needs to be done.

I was hoping to give you a compelling argument as to why, when prison rape happens, that the public needs to get involved, because prison staff will do everything in their power to suppress it, to prevent you from knowing that they actually put inmates in a deadly position to be raped.

There is a case law of a prison, FCI Dublin, which is a women’s prison, where there were numerous inmates who had been telling the staff that they were being raped, but staff did nothing about it. They eventually had a major lawsuit, and most of those officers charged…

But some escaped accountability, and some are here at USP Tucson. I’ll get to that later.So, I was discussing the incident with “Tom” and how he was raped by “Max”. I really don’t want to color more into this, but to get my point across, I have to. I need you as the read to understand the depth of what rape in prison is about, and how it can affect the human being’s dignity, and at the same time, expose the pure inhumanity of federal officers who work in prisons.

I gave you a very sad message from a rape victim, one where he (or she) has lost any reason to live, having been ravaged by rape repeatedly, while staff did nothing, in fact facilitated it to happen. Many times, rape victims feel so worthless that they are willing to take their own lives. It happens many times, but in prisons like USP Tucson, they attempt to “prevent” the suicide, acting as if they care for the victim, but ignoring all the previous cries for help when the victim KNEW he was going to be raped.

So, we go back to Tom and Max; as I mentioned, Tom is put in the SHU by officers and is told by Max that he (Max) has sexually abused prior inmates in his cell…

…do I need to tell you that this is a REAL story?

In the comments Max has said, this tells you that staff has repeatedly put victims in the cell FOR Max to rape. For him to say he has had previous cellies that he sexually assaulted means that he had at LEAST two other victims, maybe more. We have to try to assume that these victims HAD to have told staff about being raped. If not the SHU (Special Housing Unit) officers, then Psychology, or Medical, or a Unit Manager, Case Manager or Counselor.

SOMEBODY had to have been told that “Max” was raping anyone that the officers are putting In his cell. Yet, they did nothing9. By this, I hope to have established that accountability of rape falls squarely on every officer working in the SHU, to include the SHU Lieutenant, but it goes throughout the entire facility. If only one rape victim tells staff, then there should never have been another person put in the cell with Max. But apparently, he continued to get cellies, so one of at least two things is true:

Either the rape victims were too embarrassed to tell anyone, which facilitated Max’s behavior, or staff KNEW, and chose to do nothing, which again, facilitated Max’s behavior.

Either way, Max continued to rape people.

After telling Tom that he had sexually assaulted others, Tom was trapped in a cell, with no recourse for help. In most cells, there is what is called a distress button, to press in case of life-or-death situations. But at USP Tucson, for the most part, those buttons are disabled, because the officers do not want to be bothered with it.

Or, they DO work, and staff simply does not care.

So, Tom is trapped in a cell with a rapist, who obviously is stronger and more violent than Tom. Max tells Tom that the officers told him why Tom is in prison (thereby directly putting Tom in immediate danger), but Max tells Tom that he is not going to “smash” him, but he expects Tom to do something (sexual) for him.

This story gets a lot darker, and turns much more explicit that I am willing to share here, but you can likely imagine the situation Tom is in. Max demands that Tom have sex with him, and Tom, obviously not wanting to engage, pleads with him that he does not want to do it.

Max threatens violence if Tom does not obey, and in many cases, the violence comes with the rape anyway. If Tom refuses, Max could beat him, or even kill him, then still have his way. Tom, fearing his life, has no choice but to submit to Max’s demands, and has sex with him.

The next night was worse.

Tom, having been raped by Max, is told to sit in the corner, and that he wanted him out of “his” cell the next day. When an officer came by, Tom begged an officer to get him out the cell, but the officer looked in and said “we can’t open the slot after 10pm, but tomorrow I will tell the next shift”, and left him in the cell with the rapist.

Had Max been in the middle of killing Tom, would the same officer have said the same thing? Clearly, that officer had an ethical and professional obligation for safety and security, and should have done something to help Tom, but lied to him, leaving him in the cell with a man who raped him repeatedly. Tom sat in the corner, afraid for his life, because if he went to sleep, he didn’t know if Max would rape him again, and/or kill him.

Again, this IS a true story. Tom was raped several times inside of that period he was in the cell with Max… and staff all knew about it. Worse, they did nothing.

So, what I have shared is the foundation of how prisons facilitate rape at federal facilities like USP Tucson. It does happen, and even as I write this, I am very sure an inmate is being raped right now, in the SHU. So, I have to write this with vigor and compassion, hoping this will encourage people to start holding federal officers by name, responsible for the inhumane treatment they put inmates through.

What I want to share with you in upcoming parts is the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 supposedly used in federal prisons, or what is called “PREA”. This is SUPPOSED to prevent the rape of inmates by allowing them to report it to the proper authorities, but there are huge, gaping holes in this, holes that prisons have exploited to continue to facilitate rape, while telling society that they have “zero tolerance”.

I am going to put some holes in that “zero tolerance” in this essay and share with you why the PREA does not work at places like USP Tucson and give examples of other situations. Again, as you read this, understand that I am making haste so I can send this out, hopefully to save lives, but also to hold staff accountable. Please read this with compassion, thinking about someone you know that might be locked up. Rape in prison happens numerous times a day in every facility, but they all cover it up because to hold officers’ accountable means they must be charged or arrested.

But that is what is SUPPOSED to happen. We’ll continue on the next part. Stay tuned and pray for the victims.

In the previous part, I gave a very disturbing and sadistic story, a TRUE story, of what happened to an inmate here at USP Tucson back in 2019. He has since attempted to file a lawsuit, but has been delayed by USP Tucson for years, while some of the officers responsible for his rape continue to work here.

I am writing this to ring some alarms about what goes on in prisons like USP Tucson. While I said to you earlier that I have never been raped, I have had other situations. So if one asks why I am writing this; why this is important to me, it can be that I have personal stake in this.

But, even if I knew NO ONE personally, it is still an issue that needs to be addressed immediately, because it was happening long before I got here, it happens now as I write this, and it may continue to happen after I am home. So, my task, my obligation as a human being, is to chronicle these events, so that others may know what is going on, and hopefully DO something to help these victims.

So, “Tom”, as I named him, is raped numerous times by “Max”, over the week or so he is forced to live with him. I know that Tom did everything he could to get out the cell; it is very clear that the officers working in the SHU (Special Housing Unit) here at USP Tucson refused to do anything, knowingly leaving that man in a state of being raped.

Tom was able to get out by sending legal work off one day while in the cell, giving it to another staff member. But hidden in that legal mail was a desperate cry for help. Thankfully, that staff member read it, and was able to eventually get Tom out of the cell with this individual, and get him to the hospital to be examined, proving later that he indeed was raped.

Tom learned later that Max was classified as a HRA, or House Rec Alone              meaning there was absolutely NO reason for any person to be put in that cell with him unless the officers wanted that person to get raped.

Tom then begins to seek legal assistance, using the procedure titled “Prison Rape Elimination Act”, or further known as PREA. This was established in 2003 and is supposed to “eliminate” rape and protect victims when they report it. Here at USP Tucson, these messages are posted all over the place, as if they honor this, but as I have shown in one example, this is not honored at all.

Often times, staff will post messages of compliance to give the impression that they are abiding by the rules and laws set forth by the courts. But more times than not, it is the very opposite. For the PREA act to work, EVERYONE has to be on board and agree with the idea.

This starts at the very top, with the Bureau of Prisons. This is not about a lip-service, this has to be a firm belief that follows from the top all the way down. This means that the BOP has to ALL be on board, and every region. This also means that every prison, including USP Tucson, has to agree to the absolute that, as they mandate, “Everyone who reports sexual abuse and harassment has the right to be free from retaliation for reporting”.

This also means every staff member, from the Warden to the Associate Wardens, to the Captain, to the Lieutenants, to the Medical Department, Psychology and every single staff member, HAS to be in agreement that any form of sexual harassment cannot under any circumstances, be tolerated.

But we know this isn’t true at all. Staff only stands firm when their female staff members are sexually assaulted when male inmates are caught “gunning”. This is the slang term for a sexual act towards a female, and is almost always punishable, even if the accusation cannot be proven. Many inmates here at USP Tucson have been accused by female staff members of “gunning”, which have caused them to be falsely written up and punished.

But when it comes to rape, the PREA should be a vehicle to hold staff accountable, no questions asked. But again, all staff from the top on down have to be on board. If not, the gaps in the belief will allow for compromises when rape happens.

For example, as I write this, for me to make an impact, I have to convince you, the reader, that what I am sharing is real, and that you can trust what I am saying. If I fail, then you may not believe that right now, a person is being raped and physically assaulted. It is critical to understand, for a parent or a loved one, that as they read this, someone they care about may be in a critical life or death situation, and forced, if he or she wants to live, to give in to sexual advances.

You have to believe me that what I am saying is true; you have to be “on board” with this topic, for there to be a change, or the hope of one. I have to convince you, and you have to believe. If we are on the same plane on this, then what I share can help save some people.

So, Tom begins the process of reporting his incident by filing a PREA (again, it stands for Prison Rape Elimination Act). But a major flaw in this is that the PREA does absolutely nothing to PREVENT rape; it merely opens the door to REPORT it. Yet, the natural assumption is that if it is reported, then the BOP and the courts will actually do something about it, right?

Not necessarily. PREA only gives the inmate the opportunity to report it, but many, many times, it does not protect the victim, in fact it opens them up to retaliation by staff, because as I said before, not all staff are fully on board and committed to the philosophy of the PREA act.

I’d like to share with you some language put on our electronic message board, here at USP Tucson, regarding PREA. I’ll go over it a little more later, but here is what the staff posted for us, under “PREA Reminders”:

“Everyone who reports sexual abuse and harassment has the right to be free from retaliation for reporting. There are multiple ways to report sexual abuse or harassment:

Email OIG directly… it is not traceable at your institution… OIG staff do not work for the BOP”.

Let’s camp here for a second, because I need to define what “OIG” is. This is the Office of Inspector General”, which is supposed to be like an oversight committee over the BOP. Supposedly, you can email them from the computer (inmate computer) about staff misbehavior, and no staff member will ever know. So, in Tom’s case, he should be able to email OIG, and they would look into it.

The problem here is that OIG does not respond in a reasonable period of time, if at all. I will concede that the email is not traceable; I have emailed them many times on numerous issues, but I don’t get very many responses from them either. And if they get emails from every federal facility, it may be MONTHS before they even get around to your email of being raped.

Some inmates don’t email because they don’t believe it is private, and some believe that OIG in fact DOES work for the prisons, meaning a cry for help for being raped could be read by someone at OIG, then sent to the prison to “handle the problem”, putting the victim of rape at risk of more attacks.

In short, many inmates simply don’t trust the OIG. There are other ways to report sexual abuse, we’ll go over that next time, as I continue to share with you the seriousness of rape in prisons. Until next time.

In the previous section, I mentioned how “Tom”, who was raped, was attempting to file a PREA, which stands for Prison Rape Elim1nat1on Act, on staff here at USP Tucson, for putting him in direct danger of an inmate, “Max”, who was a HRA, or “House Rec Alone”, which means that this inmate is supposed to be ALONE. Never with another inmate, because, as Max himself said, he sexually abused a few of his cellmates.

So, I mentioned that Tom has to attempt to take the judicial route to justice, meaning he has to file the PREA on an inmate sexually assaulting him. But sexual assault also includes officers who sexually abuse inmates I mentioned this being the case at FCI Dublin, a women’s prison, where for weeks and months, the inmates informed staff of rape, but staff did nothing about it.

Same here at USP Tucson, in fact, often times, this results in more retaliation. Tom attempted to file a PREA in 2019 on a few officers (and YES, I have their names) for targeting him for pat-downs and cell searches. During these pat-downs, Tom describes the groping of his body parts by officers. One instance an officer demands that Tom goes to the shower, and forces him to get naked. Tom files the PREA to make judicial notice, but the retaliations continue to worsen. Even now, years later, he continues to suffer molestation by staff members, as they continue to retaliate against him.

Tom has filed numerous times to staff, and has the emails to prove it, but none have taken any real action. So, we look at the memo I brought up, about “PREA Reminders”, where they list “multiple ways to report sexual abuse or harassment”. I listed the first, and brought out counters of why this really doesn’t work. Let me share the other for discussion:

*Write a cop-out to any staff member you are comfortable with.

*Tell any staff member about the sexual abuse or harassment.

*Write directly to the Regional or Central Office PREA Coordinator.

*Write directly to OIG (Office of Inspector General}.

*File an administrative remedy.

*Have someone you trust report the allegations online.

As I mentioned before, the PREA reminders are simply a band-aid over a gaping wound. There are numerous issues with the multiple options, all based on one thing            trust.

If you cannot trust any staff member, then none of this will help, because staff often talk to one another, and will tell what you are trying to do. We here at USP Tucson know for a fact that the SIS (Special Investigative Services) officers will often tell an inmate who “snitched” on them, even though it was supposed to be discreet.

We also know from the FCI Dublin situation that even though dozens of women cried out to staff and beyond to rape, staff at the prison did nothing, and rather, tried to suppress it, and was successful for quite a while. In this, there is clear proof that when it comes to rape, the prison staff will NOT do what they are supposed to do.

You have to try to see it their way: if staff are “friends”, and it is a “us against them” mentality, they are certainly going to defend or protect one another. Even if they do not agree what an abusive staff member is doing, they are not going to “rat” on them, and get them in trouble, because in many cases, it might implicate them as well.

So, the “safer” thing to do is not tell the outside what is going on, which then creates a defensive mentality to protect staff from the inmates getting justice. When staff are molesting inmates, or facilitating rape, as with Tom, staff will attempt to discourage reporting, of if it is reported, to do everything they can to slow the litigation.

This is what is happening to Tom. Since 2019, he is STILL trying to get into court, and is constantly being delayed by staff, and even the courts. The irony is that in that same PREA memo, staff says, “There are staff trained to help you, if you are the victim of sexual abuse or harassment”, and “The Executive staff at FCC Tucson has ‘zero tolerance’ for such behavior”.

But if this is true, why does it continue to happen?

Second example: I had a former cellmate who once was in the SHU (Special Housing Unit). He told me of an inmate back there what was continually raped, and staff did nothing about it. One day, as the SHU inmates were allowed to go on the recreation yard (separate from general population), the inmate walked by my former cellie’s door, and saw that it was single cell.

He immediately begged my former cellie to let him cell with him. When my former cellie, not fully understanding the gravity of the situation, said yes, the inmate immediately changed his mind about going outside. He told the officer, “I give up my rec, I want to move in right now with this guy!”

My former cellmate learned after the guy moved in why he was so aggressive to move in. He told him that while he was in another cell, he was being raped every day. Staff HAD to have known this but refused to do anything. I share this with you and remind you that it could be anyone you know, so have a heart.

What makes reporting PREAs so difficult is the obstacles one has to go through, from retaliation by staff, the suffocation of getting the information through, the lack of trust with staff, and even if it gets to courts, the interpretation of the judicial system.

In many cases, there is a precept that says that a PREA does not provide a private right of action enforceable by individual inmates. What it implies is that courts cannot force prisons to be compliant with the Prison Rape Elimination Act. For example, in a case law, (Holloway v. Dep’t of Corr, 2013, U.S. Dist. Lexis 23243 (2013) WL 628648) it states:

“There is nothing in the PREA that suggests that Congress intended it to create a private right of action for inmates to sue prison officials for non-compliance to the Act”. and “Therefore, Plaintiffs PREA claims are implausible and should be omitted from any amended complaint”.

Are we to believe that the courts are saying that when inmates have a legitimate claim for being raped, that prisons cannot be sued if they are non-compliant? Now certainly, I am no lawyer, nor am I trying to act like one, but it seems to be the case here.

There is another case, Page v. Stanley (2013 U.S. Dist Lexis 79905, WL 2456762 (2013)) that states, “Dismissing Section 1983 claim alleging that officers failed to conduct thorough investigation of plaintiff’s complaints because plaintiff ‘Had no constitutional right to any investigation of the citizen’s complaint, much less a ‘thorough investigation’ or a particular outcome”‘.

This creates disturbing obstacles that seem to imply that even if an inmate, like Tom, gets his argument to court, the courts will find a “loophole” to justify that the prison did no wrong.

But Tom was RAPED… how do we ignore that glaring fact. and use legal jargon to waive off a man being treated so inhumanely? We already know this is happening, Tom has been trying to get to court and get a decision for SIX YEARS, and is

stalled. What can he do?

We’ll try to wrap this up on the final segment. There is SO much more I wanted to add in this topic, but I hope I am making a compelling argument for those who read this to do something. We’ll wrap this up next time.

I truly apologize for not giving this subject the attention it really deserves.

In writing this topic, I had to be fast because of the urgency to get this out a fast as possible. It has only been less than 48 hours since talking to “Tom” about what he went through, and it burned inside of me of what this man has gone through with the staff here at USP Tucson, to knowingly and apologetically put this man in a clear situation where he would undoubtedly be raped repeatedly by another man.

Tom has emailed staff, and filed an administrative remedy, called a BP, to get his incident to the courts, using the PREA, or Prison Rape Elimination Act, but has met obstacles every step of the way.

To help, I had to quickly put together an essay, or a series of essays, to try to open some doors for him and others who have suffered through rape in prisons by negligent and malicious staff, both men and women.

We must not forget that this does not only happen in men’s prisons, but women as well. I bring back in the situation of FCI Dublin, in Dublin, California. That is a women’s prison, and there were allegations for months by the women there that they were being raped, but staff there did nothing about it, and further, did everything to cover it up.

Thankfully, it finally made the public’s eye, after even the courts created obstacles for the victims. I remember very well some of this discussed on the television show, “60 Minutes”. In the interview with the (at the time) Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the reporter asked her (the former Director of the BOP) how she felt about all those victims, and the fact that the BOP did literally nothing to help them.

The Director gave a generic answer, and then was asked, “so, you’re not even going to say ‘you’re sorry’ for what happened to them?”

The Director didn’t apologize… she danced around the answer. I sat in my cell, listening to the interview and said to myself, “she’s not even going to APOLOGIZE, or take responsibility, for all those women who were raped by staff!” It left a horrid taste in my mouth about the BOP, in that they clearly are not willing to admit that their staff is capable of rape, and will do everything they can to protect such violent and malicious staff.

There is a statement from a case law, Cal. Coal. for Women Prisoners v. United States (March 15, 2024, 723 F. Supp 3d 712, 9th Circuit (opinion), which says:

“The Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Dublin is a dysfunctional mess… The BOP has proceeded sluggishly with intentional disregard of the inmates’ constitutional rights despite being fully appraised of the situation for years. The repeated installation of BOP leadership who fail to grasp and address the situation strains credulity…”

In short, the BOP was well aware of the raping of women in FCI Dublin, and in the same manner, is quite aware of the raping here at USP Tucson and every other prison… they just refuse to do anything about it.

A third example (which, again, is real): An older inmate here told me that while he was in the SHU (Special Housing Unit), there was a younger inmate who was put in his cell. The older inmate looked at the younger and thought something wasn’t right about him.

The younger inmate, once he got in, tensed up, shaking, with his fists balled up, as if ready to fight. The older man looked compassionately at him and asked him why he was acting like that. He asked, “why do you look like you want to fight me?”

The younger inmate responded in shaking fear, “you’re going to try to rape me, aren’t you?”

Shocked, the older man did his best to reassure him that he would never do that. After he got the younger inmate to calm down, the younger individual told him that he had been raped by another inmate in another cell and wanted out. Staff KNEW about this and were slow to help him.

I say to you again, what if this was someone you know? How would a rape victim address this? Prisons lead you to believe they should file a PREA, which has a basis, but I believe is misleading. According to Barber v. Cox (No. 1:17-CV-00318-BLW 2019

U.S. Dist. Lexis 20250, 2019 WL 454090, at *1 (D. Idaho, Feb. 5, 2019, unpublished)), it says:

“PREA was enacted to address the problem of rape in prison by creating and applying national standards to prevent, detect and respond to prison rape, and by ensuring compliance of state and federal prisons by conditioning eligibility for federal grant money on compliance with the standards”

Doesn’t something seem odd about that? The last part says, “conditioning eligibility for federal grant MONEY…”

Is this all about money? If so, then the PREA act is already a failure, and only a ruse to allow prisons to get grant money, so they can make fancy flyers and post it all around the prison. They are getting federal money to prorogate the idea that prisons have a “zero tolerance” of prison rape.

Yet, at FCI Dublin, after years of complaining by women of being raped, the prison, and ALL the staff members, did nothing but ignore it. In fact, some of them escaped accountability and were relocated. Why weren’t they charged or fired? We have, at this time, at least TWO women staff members who were there at FCI Dublin, that still have a job in the federal government, even after they KNEW for years that women were being raped.

Where is the zero tolerance? And I cannot, and will not, subscribe that these women, who currently work here, did not know for years that inmates were being raped. USP Tucson holds up to 1300 inmates, and when something happens, we ALL are aware of what is going on.

FCI Dublin is less than half this prison, some say it housed about 500 inmates or less. So, if for YEARS the women were complaining about rape, then it stands to reason that every single officer working there, including the ones that are here now, KNEW that women were being raped, and did nothing.

I could write about these individuals and what they are doing now, but it would take too much time. I will state this, I do not trust them. One is in charge of the Education Department and has been cancerous to the entire department. But that is another essay.

Consider this as well, I mentioned that the courts seem to downplay the rights of inmates through PREA, stating that they really don’t have a constitutional right to address it. They imply that if the prison fails to do a proper investigation there is nothing they can do. But remember, rape in prison would be, and IS Cruel and Unusual Punishment, a direct violation of the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. That makes is illegal.

Yet courts and prisons find loopholes to protect prison staff from such malicious acts. It brings us back to Tom, and what he should do. He has shared with me all his paperwork, and he has well documented every step he has taken; some of you reading this will have this attached, as he has given me permission to share it. In hopes to get help.

I am still very angry about this, and again, I apologize for my haste in writing this; this had to be done quickly, and I only had 30 minutes per part to write this, because this needs to be shared as soon as possible. Tom needs help, and so do hundreds of others who are right now, being raped in prisons like USP Tucson. Staff will do nothing, despite the PREA memos they post, since they get money by doing it. It’s money over ethics.

Guys are being raped, women are being raped, and the prison only cares about the extra money they get for posting flyers. In that, I think we may have answered the question, how to facilitate rape…

It’s quite easy… you simply choose not to care.

But not everyone is like that; we have to change this, before another person is raped…please help them.