PRISONER ABUSE

'Prisoner abuse' is the mistreatment of persons while they are under arrest or incarcerated.
Abuse falling into this category includes:

★ Physical abuse: Needless beating, hitting, or other Corporal punishment.

★ Psychological abuse: Taunting, sleep deprivation, or other forms of psychological abuse, occasionally white noise

★ Sexual abuse: Forced intercourse, genital mutilation, or other forms of Sexual abuse.

★ Other abuse: Refusal of essential medication, humiliation, etc.

★ Torture: any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted

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Psychological abuse

Psychological abuse

; White noise : The endless playing of random static (similar to that of unused TV frequencies) with no pattern; this can cause insanity and mental disorders.
; Taunting : Needless insults and profanity to prisoners to gain a feeling of superiority by any figure of authority.
; Enablement of Sexual Predators : Prisoner are sometimes purposefully housed with known rapists of other prisoners by prison guards-or protection from known rapists is purposefuly withheld. These practices create a very high incidence of rape in US prisons. This was the topic of the 2001 report No Escape from Human Right Watch.