Men Behind Bars: Sexual Exploitation in Prison

✍ Scribed by Wayne S. Wooden, Jay Parker (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Barry" is a seventeen-year-old single white male. He has blond hair and blue eyes, weighs 150 pounds, and is five feet eleven inches tall. He was arrested in California at age sixteen for assault and robbery. Because he was underage he was initially segregated in a one-man cell while in county jail. Then, upon admission to a state prison recep­ tion and classification facility, he was housed in a special dormitory for young, inexperienced inmates who would be at risk within the general population. Upon completion of his screening Barry's counselor recommended that he be sent to a penal institution reserved for the younger, more violence-prone, and hard­ core inmates. Barry said that he felt he would have "prob­ lems" at the recommended facility, but his counselor replied, "You won't have any problems." Once he arrived, Barry was double-celled with a nineteen-year-old inmate who beat and anally raped him during his first night in the admission unit. Barry's cellmate continued to assault him sexually during the two weeks they were housed together.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Nature of Prison Exploitation....Pages 13-24
Prison Setting and Sexual Scene....Pages 25-42
Behavior, Sexual Orientation, and Ethnicity....Pages 43-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Male Sexual Relationships....Pages 73-97
The Punks in Prison....Pages 99-120
Behavior and Attitudes of the Homosexuals....Pages 121-141
Types of Homosexuals in Prison....Pages 143-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Inmate Attitudes toward Homosexuality....Pages 167-186
Staff Attitudes toward Homosexuality....Pages 187-204
Prison Policy, Programs, and Change....Pages 205-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-264

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences, general