Well known prison reformer, John Rush of Justice and Mercy has supplied details about the growing scandal at the Beaver County, Pennsylvania jail. As an official investigation slowly gets under way, it's clear that the jail is as perverse and violent as any state prison. Bearver County is located along the Ohio state border in far Western Pennsylvania, North and West of Pittsburgh. With a population of fewer that 190,000 persons, it seems an unlikely place for the kind of misconduct uncovered at the jail. Of course, there's rampant sexual abuses. Wherever there are cops or prison guards, there's sexual abuse. Power is exploited sexually. The Beaver County jail guards sexually assault and humiliate the female prisoners and, perhaps the males as well. Female guards often sell pussy to the guys who can afford it. Guard sergeants get a thrill by groping the prisoners. Of course there's also a lot of drug dealing. Guards peddle dope in all Pennsylvania's prisons. In Beaver County it seems to be mostly OxyContin and weed, but cocaine and prescription drugs are sold, too. The many prisoner reports have been ignored. Guards rely on the completely false axiom that prisoners can't be believed, that somehow prisoners are intrinsically liars. There's no reliable evidence that prisoners are less honest than guards or anybody else. The guards preach the "prisoners are liars" myth as a way of hiding their own misdeeds. In the case of Roy Chambliss, guards beat him so severely that they broke his orbital bone. Just calling him a liar wouldn't protect the guards. They forced him to belatedly sign a false statement that he'd fallen on his cot. The Chambliss incident is only one of a long list of beatings and physical abuses. There can be little doubt that prisoners are being habitually abused and that the prison staff routinely lies about it. Other Pennsylvania jails are no better that Beaver County and the state prisons are a travesty. Not until authorities are willing to accept prisoners' accounts of abuses, will the abuses be stopped. The first stem is to stop discriminating against citizens because they are prisoners. Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumius Bandersnatch!" Lewis Carroll, 1867 You are welcome to use or republish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the New and Interesting Items Menu. Return to the Public Enemies Menu. Return to the Main Menu. Go to our site's Search Engine. Send us Your Comments, Questions or Input.