Of Women Prisoners
Shrugged Off
By: Nancy N. Lyster
Pennsylvania's infamous Department of Imprisonment thinks that
the sexual assault of at least 3 minority women is a trivial
matter. A number of women prisoners were sexually violated at
the state prison at Muncy near Willimansport in
North-Central Pennsylvania. To Pennsylvania officials it was
a trivial matter.
James Diffenderfer III of the little town of Sunbury North of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Unfriendly City, is, or was, a guard at the Muncy women's prison. He admitted to sexually assaulting a number of prisoners. Pennsylvania's Department of Imprisonment didn't really care much. What's the fuss over women being sexually violated? They're only prisoners, after all, and women at that, not to mention undeserving minorities. Shouldn't guards be allowed to rape them? After protecting the guard for a while, the Department of Imprisonment decided that since there were apparently less than half a dozen victims, probation would be the best sentence for the pervert guard. What do you suppose would have happened if it had been the other way around? What would have happened if a prisoner had sexually assaulted half a dozen prison guards? You can bet the culprit wouldn't have gotten probation. He'd have spent the rest of his life in prison. The Republican district attorney, a character neamed Robert Ferrell III, apparently didn't think that it was his job to protect female prisoners. This honorable Republican public servant worked out a plea deal with Diffenderfer. The pervert assailant was left off with a misdemeanor charge and probation. The guard didn't even have to register as a pervert or sexual predator. The pat on the wrist was so light that even the biased Republican judge, Dudley N. Anderson, was shocked. "If Diffenderfer really used his position to do what he's accused of, and it's not just inmates exaggerating, then shame on you guys for approving a plea deal calling for no jail time." Nonetheless, being a Republican with no sincere interest in protecting ordinary people, let alone women prisoners, the honorable Judge Dudley N. Anderson approved of the deal. He let the guard off with a $500 fine and 70 hours of "community service." That's the sentence for running a red light! Clearly, women prisoners aren't safe in Pennsylvania. Not only won't the deplorable Department of Imprisonment protect them, but prosecutors and the courts (at least those that are Republican) couldn't care less!
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