Calls grow to root out rampant sexual abuse in US prisons

US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has lashed out at the penitentiary system in the United States calling on prison officials to immediately root out rampant sexual abuse in the federal prisons.

Sexual abuse in America's federal prisons must be rooted out, Monaco insisted at a recent Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) gathering at a training facility in Aurora, Colorado.

“It’s incumbent upon us as leaders to call that out and make those changes and really be vigilant about it,” the US Justice Department's second-highest-ranking official said at the meeting which was the first gathering of prison wardens held to address and give training on the issue.

“This is urgent, urgent work,” Monaco told the 122 federal prisons wardens who had been gathered from across the country.

Most wardens are dedicated leaders who can preside over a culture that “does not tolerate even one instance of sexual abuse,” she said, seemingly encouraging the prison chiefs to act dutifully.

The Colorado gathering is the first conference of US federal prison warden since the AP news agency released an investigative report revealing the deep, previously unreported flaws within the federal Bureau of Prisons, the US Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency.

Quotes about wellness from famous American Muslim, Malcolm X, who had spent years in US prisons and converted to Islam in one of them before rising to fame and being assassinated in an alleged government black op, were spotted at the training facility, according to AP.

To tackle the issue, teams of experts and officials will soon be deployed to women’s prisons across America to follow up on the changes made in the inhumane penitentiary system in the United States last fall.

The teams will interview both prison staff and inmates, Monaco said at the warden's gathering at the training facility outside Denver.

Employees at prisons have total control over the inmates, and there is no scenario in which an inmate can give their consent for sexual activity because prison law bans any sort of sexual activity between a prison worker and an inmate convicted to jail.