If lawsuits against assault are applicable when checking into a motel, should they not be even more applicable when someone is sent to prison?

[Kelley1]

The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution reads as follows: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Rapes, stabbing, etc. are cruel and unusual punishment.

A woman checked into a hotel and was raped in her room. Because the hotel didn't protect her, she sued and collected a large sum of money. That and other similar rapes in hotel room and the very large judgement is the reason hotel have programmable card keys instead of keys.

The same principal should apply in prisons. If a state locks someone up, the state, the warden, and the guards have an obligation to protect the prisoner from assaults. Prisoners that are raped or assaulted should be allowed to sue and collect from the state, the warden, and the guards larges sums of money. After a few million to hundred million dollar judgments and prison assaults would seldom if ever happen. Even a hundred thousand dollar judgement against a guard would be sufficient so the guards would not allow the assaults to happen. Instead of paying ten million dollar judgments if necessary the state would stop putting prisoners in danger.

[molonski2]

They should be actually because Liberty has been taken away , jail should actually be the safest place for all , and its not..

In Australia , a VERY high profile poisoner was killed in Jail , he was a crown witness , this stuff should never , ever happen , and if it were to the penalties against the State should be massive , there is a duty of care.

[standardguy]

Yes you are right. In prision you can't protect or defend yourself. You have to trust that the governmment and their jails protect you from bandits.

[Lliam]

I agree. It almost seems like prisons are made unsafe on purpose. The guards know what's going on, but they do little to stop gangs, drugs and violence.

[molonski2]

Agreed , its like they are making the danger part of the product , this should not be the case.

[Anonymous]

They do have these lawsuits and they are paid for by taxpayer dollars, so the prison officials don't really care because it's not their money. The same with lawsuits against police. It's the taxpayers paying, not the police, so they don't care. If you sue a hotel, you're hurting their business and their own finances.

[SixFootSexy]

Don't forget, Epstein didn't kill himself.

[Kelley1]

I believe you are right but murdering him prevents the public from ever finding out the truth.

[SixFootSexy]

So you're saying if they had protected him more in prison, then our corrupt, ped0 oligarchy would've been exposed?

[Kelley1]

When they kill someone, it is probably to hide the truth.

[Anonymous]

You are 100% correct. But it won't happen because the victims are men, not women.

[noohair]

In theory you are right. But the world is real and not run by theory.

[Kelley1]

They should make the effort.

[noohair]

Prison is very hard to control.

[eagle1951]

yeah