Reason: Former Staffers Condemn Cruel Treatment of Inmates at a Texan Prison for Sex Offenders
For many men serving time for committing sex offenses in Texas, their prison term never really ends—even if they complete their sentence. That’s because they’re required to enter a live-in mental health facility before returning to society.
That facility—in Littlefield, Texas—is actually a former maximum security prison in the middle of a dirt field.
“It comes as a surprise,” says Mary Sue Molnar, founder of Texas Voices for Reason and Justice, a nonprofit dedicated to reforming the state’s sex offense laws and registry. “I often get letters from prison saying, ‘Oh my god, they’re going to civil commit me. What should I do?'”
Civil commitment is the practice of keeping people locked up past their release date, on the grounds that they are so dangerous they need therapy—years and years of it—before they can safely return to society.
The therapeutic techniques sound hodge-podge. The inmates “have to admit to all of their offenses and share it with the group,” said one of the founders of Texans Against Civil Commitment (TACC), a former Littlefield therapist who writes under the name ‘Murphy’ and who claims to have been fired for not seeing “eye to eye” with management. “And they have to keep a masturbation log so the therapist knows how often they’re masturbating and what they’re masturbating about. So she knows whether it’s healthy or whether it’s deviant.” The men must also record whether or not they climaxed. These logs are read aloud in group therapy.
he prison also employs polygraphs and penile plethysmography, measuring changes to the circumference or volume of the penis as the men watch and listen to different stimuli.
When an inmate moves up a tier, which can take a year, he can find himself demoted for many reasons, including very small infractions. One man who had been at Littlefield for years and made it through all four tiers was finally about to get his release hearing. But he did something wrong—rumor had it he swore at a guard—and was knocked back down to tier 1, where he would have to start anew, according to Murphy.
He went to his cell and hanged himself.
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I hope everyone involved; from the courts to the nurses passing out meds burn in hell for what they are doing. None of this will stop until these people are treated like the animals they are.. Rot in hell every one of you who condone this treatment of humans.. My blood is boiling..
If I were a family member of someone being held at one of these concentration camps, I’d send the staff to hell myself.
Dan
I was going to type something but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I cannot say what you said any better than you did. I think you spoke for most if not all of us on the Nazi hit list.
Although I will say, rather than Hell, I would like to see all of them be on the registry for just one year to see what we go through every day of our lives. Then and only then, they can a “Ticket to ride” on the Express bus to Hades.