United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (“Bangkok Rules”).
International human rights law provides a clear and universal framework relating to detention, enshrined by the following rule:
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (“Bangkok Rules”)
Bad food and medical care and even worse problems make prison reform a must.
The Bangkok Rules give guidance to policy makers, legislators, sentencing authorities and prison staff to reduce the imprisonment of women, and to meet the specific needs of women in case of imprisonment.
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came here to post "why is chico not wearing clothes in his mugshot".... leaving with "why is kenmin literally standing in the middle of em city shadow boxing"
i can't stand this li chen had a dumb as fuck expression on his face the whole time too
and i was wrong chico did indeed wear that shirt weird shirt prior to s6 (these are form s5e4) .... and why did i never notice that beecher's pod is right next to the one chico has off the staircase? (i think i did make note of it in s6 when they were banging on the pods for cyril but then immediately had no use for the information since it's not like keller was in there with beecher)(hilarity would abound if so) (brink of overcrowding and somehow beecher never has a podmate unless the plot needs him to, meanwhile other pods have 3 ppl or more) (but I guess you get away with less when you're not in a pod by the wall) (then again i don't think the hacks notice anything once they turn off the lights)
(picture me flipping through a scrap book bc that's how i watch background movement in this show)
guerra demonstrating crowd control & exhibit z of the ugly and strange fake tattoos on this show (they always have the strangest line work/negative space blacked out) (miguel's rose tattoo is another example)
doggies!!
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When I post about keeping men out of women’s prisons I also mean no male staff.
A former correctional officer at California’s largest women’s prison has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least 13 incarcerated people over nearly a decade, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Gregory Rodriguez, who worked at the Central California Women’s Facility before he retired last year while under investigation, has been charged with 95 counts of sexual abuse, including rape, sodomy, sexual battery and rape under color of authority, the Madera county district attorney’s office said, as well as one drug-related charge. The assaults date back to 2014, but mostly occurred in the last two years, prosecutors said.
Advocates say the charges scratch the surface of systemic misconduct and sexual violence in the women’s prison, and correctional authorities last year said investigators had identified more than 22 victims of Rodriguez’s abuse.
Rodriguez, 54, was being held on $7.8m bail, and it was not clear if he had a lawyer.If convicted on all charges, Rodriguez could be sentenced to more than 300 years in prison.
The DA’s office said the 95 charges include 39 individual sexual assaults. A 48-page complaint alleges that Rodriguez abused people throughout the facilities, including in a substance abuse building, in a clinic, before and after court appearances and in the parole hearing area where incarcerated people appear before commissioners who decide whether to grant their freedom. He is also accused of bringing heroin into the prison.
Advocates working with survivors said there was a culture of abuse, fear and retaliation in the facility that allowed him to continue his behavior for years.
At a state hearing last month, state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas noted that Rodriguez was accused of abusing more than 1% of the entire women’s prison population, and that allegations against him date back more than 10 years: “Twenty-two women came forward, and we know when women come forward, there are often women and other victims who don’t.”
She also noted a 2021 inspector general report that found the California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) poorly handled more than 60% of all complaints against staff by incarcerated people.
“If one officer is getting away with this for more than a decade, he is backed up by other officers and by the system, which is not only allowing the culture of sexual violence to continue, but condoning it,” said Colby Lenz, an advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, a group that has been assisting the survivors. “This is not just one bad apple.”
The women’s prison where Rodriguez worked for 12 years is located in Chowchilla, a small city about 120 miles (190km) south-east of San Francisco. Rodriguez retired in August after being approached about the assaults as part of an internal investigation, CDCR said in December.
The investigation, which found that Rodriguez may have engaged in sexual misconduct against at least 22 incarcerated people, was handed over to the district attorney’s office earlier this year. Rodriguez had worked for CDCR since 1995.
“These allegations are in no way a reflection on the vast majority of correctional officers who act professionally and do their best to make sure prisoners serve their time while remaining safe,” the DA’s office said on Wednesday. “It is our hope that the removal and arrest of this defendant encourages them to continue in their honorable profession upholding the law every day.”
Two unidentified accusers filed lawsuits in December alleging Rodriguez sexually assaulted them at the prison, which holds about 2,100 residents.
Survivors who have spoken up have faced persistent retaliation, said Lenz: “They live in terror both from the trauma of the sexual violence itself and ongoing harassment and retaliation by officers, and they never have a chance to properly grieve or heal. They have to continue to live with their abusers who have the keys to their cells.”
Advocates have called on the state to expedite the release of survivors.
“They are constantly under threat. It’s horrific and extremely isolating, and there is nowhere safe to turn inside,” said Amika Mota, executive director of the Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, another group working with the victims.
A CDCR spokesperson on Thursday pointed to the department’s earlier statement on the investigation into Rodriguez, which said “retaliation against anyone who reports these kinds of allegations as well as retaliation against those who cooperate with investigations is not tolerated”.
A 2003 federal law known as the Prison Rape Elimination Act created a “zero-tolerance” policy for the sexual assault of incarcerated people. But California prison officials have still been accused of sexual misconduct in recent years. That includes Israel Trevino, a former correctional officer at the Central California Women’s Facility, who was fired in 2018 after being accused of groping and making sexually harassing comments.
An Associated Press investigation found that a high-ranking federal bureau of prisons official, who formerly worked at a women’s prison in the San Francisco Bay Area, was repeatedly promoted after allegations that he assaulted detainees. Another investigation found a pattern of sexual abuse by correctional officers at the women’s facility. The US government is now facing a backlash for seeking to deport survivors of the abuse who are also non-citizens.
Recent civil cases have also exposed widespread sexual abuse of youthinside juvenile prisons in Los Angeles.
These types of accusations extend beyond California. Former prison officers in Kentucky and New Jersey have recently been charged with sexually abusing or assaulting incarcerated people.
The Associated Press contributed reporting
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Okay so like out of story the dark magic sigil is based on the caduceus, we know this. But in universe, there are only two symbols for the seven sources that include diamonds, like, at all
The Star Primal, with a diamond enshrined in a quasi-semi circle, and the dark magic symbol, with a diamond almost as though the magic is being channelled from it (like the power cyclone), which matches up with Viren / Ziard / Aaravos’ staff
However we’ve also noted the diamond pattern of the interlocking square-ish shapes from the bottom of the dark magic sigil to be in Aaravos’ crown and Katolis’ heraldry diamond pattern
In a series of circles with the Key of Aaravos being the main angular exception
Basically of this tethering Aaravos’ diamond imagery of his literal chest piece and his crown not only to Katolis’ historical heraldry (possibly started by the Orphan Queen) but also to the symbol of dark magic itself, as well as his Key
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