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		iwwr on April 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison If slavery on the inside is not controversial, even less so is "judicial rape", the expectations that prisoners get sexually assaulted in prison, along with their legal punishment.

yodsanklai on April 6, 2015 [–]

I don't know why the government can't be sued when this happens. They have some responsibilities over this kind of things.

dragonwriter on April 6, 2015 | [–]

> I don't know why the government can't be sued when this happens.

Among other reasons, sovereign immunity.

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