I haven't read Minearverse since yesterday, and I must say, catching up was pure joy. It does my heart good to see Minearverse busy again. Almost as much joy as the thought of AB on The Inside.

After the movie delay and show delay, plus my life in general, which has not been great lately, I needed some good news. Many thanks to Tim, Kristen, Allyson, and Adam.

The second part is character development, and um, I say this without intent to stroke his ego, Tim is one of the few writers I've seen who genuinely understands that you have to earn the audience's heart and then break the fuck out of it and have to do it without losing them.

Jane brings in the lighter side of people's souls, and so I think the combination of the two producers is brilliant, since this show is so dark and creepy in that Angel-locks-the-lawyers-in-the-cellar kind of way.

Squeee!

I can't wait til Kristen releases who signed on to the show.

I'm doing a Snoopy Dance, myself.

The length of time between reading this and reading about AB was just enough to build up the anticipation. I shouldn't be this happy over a television show, but somehow I am.

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease stay on the air!

Does anyone know about rape statistics? Do they count prison rape?

I think they only just started collecting prison rape statistics with the Stop Prison Rape act. Off to google.

Bingo. Went to Stop Prisoner Rape's website (excellent people; I need to send them money this year.)

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SPR is pressuring the FBI to reform its practice of including only female rape victims in its annual report on violent crime statistics. The FBI’s reporting procedures ignore the thousands of men who are victims of rape behind bars every year and promote outdated assumptions about rape and gender.

The answer to your question is "no".

Excellent peeps indeed, even if every mention of the Prison Rape Elimination Act makes me wonder why we can't just get a Rape Elimination Act.

Because prison rape is generally regarded as tolerable -- people joke about people going to prison being raped as if it were a legal part of the punishment.

When you say tolerable, you mean tolerable by people not in prison, right? I mean, I'd say it's expected.

Maybe I was confused, then, and it was that men are the most often the perpetrators of violent crime.

It's possible that the relative proportion of aggressors to victims is higher among men than it is among women. By which I mean, out of a hundred men, 10 might be aggressors and 20 might be victims, whereas out of a hundred women 3 might be aggressors and 15 might be victims. (And the victims and aggressors sets may overlap, as well.)

Does that make sense? And I pulled those numbers out of my ass, just for hypothetical purposes.

I mean, I'd say it's expected.

That's the point. The common wisdom thinks it's not only tolerable but good for criminals to rape one another in prison. You hear jokes made about convicted criminals getting raped. Prison rape shocks the conscience less than civilian rape.

I think it shouldn't. I think we shouldn't turn a blind eye to prisoners raping each other (and guards raping prisoners) any more than to their murdering each other.

The common wisdom thinks it's not only tolerable but good for criminals to rape one another in prison.

Hmm. Your common wisdom is harsher than mine. I do see it as "a bonus reason to not go to jail," but it's not the only one -- shanking and other illegal things that happen there are int he same box in my head.