I've read many studies that have concluded the opposite. I do think it's tough to measure recidivism with sex crimes, however, as sex crimes are under-reported/under-prosecuted.

Well, they'd still be a felon. They just wouldn't have to remain on the sex offender registry. For a lot of people, being on the registry is a massive punishment (you have to pay fines every year, you can't live in many parts of the country, you can't be in a room with children, you're less likely to find gainful…

People can be rehabilitated. Everyone has the capacity to change for the better.

If you Google someone's name that's been arrested, you'll notice there are several commercial websites that put their information up (including an identifying mugshot) and will only take it down if you pay them. Considering that many people who are arrested cannot afford attorneys or bond, let alone the price of…

Just as an FYI, I don't know anything about the shelter where this dog was rescued in Selma. However, I do know about one "high-kill shelter" "death row", as you call it, in Alabama. They do their absolute best with the limited resources they have to get their animals adopted or rescued. The Alabama legislative…

Pretending to be much more than the sum of its parts, although of course I haven't seen it yet. I'm not a fan of Warhol myself, but to each their own.

So it's still pretentious than?

It's not a laughable explanation at all. The police coerced her into fingering Lumumba. This kind of shit happens.

Point taken, I'll clarify my post. Thanks. *Edit: And Kinja wont let me edit my previous post. Oh well.

Are you from the US? Whoever is voicing over that goat is or is trying to sound African American (using what Wikipedia calls the AA vernacular).

I disagree. The "voice" of the goat sounds like an African American male (as you said, it's probably Tyler) and lineups are supposed to only include people who look alike. The goat comes off as a racist caricature of an African American male. I don't see how this is supposed to spoof the whole angry black…

The Carrie Bradshaw is strong with this one.

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I appreciate your response. Thanks for finding that information.

I think it's very disturbing that you cannot even consider the possibility that someone who "did a bunch of illegal shit to get into prisons" can be a rape victim, when prisoners are one of the most at risk populations for rape. Please read this https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/2266… and consider broadening your…

It's referenced in this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/nyr… ("an inmate cannot legally consent to sex"). Sorry can't find MD law on this right now. But even if the law in MD isn't explicit on this point, CO's have complete and total control over prisoners' lives in a unique way that simply makes it…

To be honest, it reminds me a little of the media's narrative on Lynndie England, who also was described as having low self-esteem, but who also perpetuated sexually abusive acts on the prisoners in her care.

Prisoners cannot legally give their consent to have sex with corrections officers. Regardless of gender. Legally speaking, the corrections officers raped these prisoners (and we really have no idea of the details of these relationships and how coercive they might have been). I really cannot believe a site so…

And this article only gives the state's side here, and of course the state will say the inmate was the aggressor (as they have in situations where female inmates have reported rape and pregnancies by male CO's). It's poor journalism, especially by a site that claims to be anti-rape (I guess only when it fits their…

I don't mind a little blame being placed on the female CO's. But I think it's interesting that no one (on Gawker or Jezebel anyway) is considering that the female CO's may have very well been the aggressors in this situation. After all, the female CO's were in the position of power here, not the inmates. They had…