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To my knowledge I have not had much contact with hardened criminals. I have not heard it "from the horses mouth" that there's much sodomizing going on within the penal system. I know it's not right by my tendency is to be disbelieving of this really being a rampant problem in the system. I imagine most of the general population has a somewhat similar response. They haven't heard it from and experienced or authoritative source so they would rather pretend that it's only a "urban legend" and go on with their lives.
My gut response is that if the criminal is a sexual offender I would allow another criminal to give him the same kind of treatment he gave. Otherwise I see it as just plain wrong. I would imagine that in some cases the prison authorities look the other way for several reasons. 1. Why SAVE a criminal from "punishment"? They ASKED for it. (I imagine some prison guards may adopt his kind of mentality when they must deal with these people on a daily basis.) 2. If the guards were to step into a situation they are possibly just delaying the inevitable since the situation will probably arise once again with that same individual that they protected because then they are "teacher's pet" so to speak. What did anyone ever think of the teacher's pet? They hated them usually. 3. Why would the guards endager themselves to protect a "criminal".
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My Karma just ran over your Dogma. 
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