Should homosexual prison inmates have a right to share the same cell?

Should homosexual prison inmates have a right to share the same cell?

Introduction

In the past few decades, gays, lesbians and transgender have become a topic that increasingly discussed and debated among social theorists. Indeed, sex and desire have become the focus of intense social-theoretical, philosophical and feminist fascination, and it is against this backcloth that social theorists have sought to rethink the constitution and reproduction of sexualities, bodies, pleasures, desires, impulses, sensations and affects. How to think sexuality beyond the constraints of culture is a question that is increasingly crucial to the possibilities of political radicalism today.

The cultural prompting for this turn towards sexuality in social theory is not too difficult to discern. In the aftermath of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and particularly because of the rise of feminism, sexuality has come to be treated as infusing broad-ranging changes taking place in personal and social life. The politics of identity, sexual diversity, postmodern feminism or post-feminism, gay and lesbian identities, the crisis of personal relationships and family life, AIDS, sexual ethics and responsibilities of care, respect and love: these are core aspects of our contemporary sexual dilemmas (Williams, 2003).

Discussion

The living conditions and treatment of prisoners detained in United States homosexual's prisons deserve to be separated from other prisoners, and to be treated separately. The need for dissociation between homosexual and heterosexual inmates is explained by the following feature: the prison and the prison overcrowding is in the imagination of many of them a true sexual fantasy (Casey-Acevedo, 2001).

The issue of sexuality is a reality obsessively for each prisoner it is a woman or a man. This reality is reflected in deterioration in the psychological health of detainees and often leads to acts that reveal more of the rage of pleasure. The prison population is faced with a strict set of rules imposed by both the Prison through the Prison Rules and by the prisoners themselves have enacted an honor code based on the exemplary force. This parallel world is the prison of binary order and it is divided among two categories: "supermen" and "sub-humans"(Casey-Acevedo, 2001).

The first draw their legitimacy respect and fear inspired by the seriousness of the offense for which they are incarcerated. Strength and physical power combined with a strong mental enables them to subject those who do not have the means to resist. When compiling the file prison (which follow the detained until his death), Prison Administration determines with precision watch making almost HIV status and sexual orientation of the prisoner.

This "caution" is intended to ensure any risk of contamination (if the offender is HIV-positive) and prevent potential conflicts with other inmates about homosexuality is proven. Prison is a place where segregation does not appear vulnerable to the risk of being categorized non grata "sub-humans". The "rejected" are more commonly called the "pointers", which are known to have abused a victim outside the code of domination considered normal, by attacking a vulnerable ...