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An Alachua County college student in jail on marijuana charges was raped over the weekend by his cell mate, a man already being held on sexual battery charges, authorities said Monday.



The 19-year-old student was serving four weekends in jail on charges of delivering marijuana, said Alachua County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Troiano. Last weekend was the first weekend of his sentence.

His cell mate held a ballpoint pen to the teenager's neck at about 9 p.m. Friday and then forced himself on him, Troiano said. A member of the victim's family reported the incident to authorities on Saturday.

Jail detention officers, who check the cells at least once an hour, heard nothing and nothing was reported to them Friday, Troiano said.

Randolph Jackson, 35, was charged with sexual battery. Jackson has been in jail since July on charges of sexual battery in a different case that is still pending.

The two were put in a cell together because they were both charged with felonies, Troiano said. Also, there was very little room in the jail last weekend, Troiano added. There were 918 inmates and the jail's capacity is 920.

"If there was space available, absolutely we would rather keep our weekenders in a pre-designated area," Troiano said. "But because we don't have much space available we have to do with circumstances on hand."

Inmates are assigned to cells based on their charges, their history and other factors, he said.

These two inmates were being held in a two-man cell in pod 1-B. Inmates who are awaiting trial or who don't yet have a jail classification are kept in this section, Troiano said.

Jail officials don't house inmates who are charged with misdemeanors, which are less serious crimes, with those who have felony charges, he said.

Troiano said this was the first sexual battery reported at the jail in the memory of jail officials.

Jackson never showed any signs of having sexual tendencies toward other inmates, Troiano added. He has since been moved to his own cell.

004 FL: <a href="http://www.drugsense.org/lists/restore/v2003.n143" target="_blank">Stud ent in Jail for Cannabis is Raped</a>
Restore-Digest Tuesday, June 17 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 143
Author: Kathy Ciotola
Source: The Gainesville Sun
Contact: voice@sunone.com
Website: <a href="http://www.sunone.com" target="_blank">http ://www.sunone.com</A>
Pubdate: Tuesday, June 10, 2003



'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
October 27, 2002
By Vin Suprynowicz, Columnist
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

(Excerpted) According to the outfit Common Sense for Drug Policy, which maintains the Web site -- <a href="http://www.drugwarfacts.org " target="_blank">http ://www.drugwarfacts.org </A> -- there are now approximately 77,000 state, local and federal inmates imprisoned on marijuana charges.

According to FBI Uniform Crime reports on numbers of marijuana arrests, in 1991 there were 200,465 arrests in the United States for marijuana possession. But far from being "phased out," arrests for marijuana possession rose steadily through the 1990s, reaching 646,042 in 2000 (3,742 of those in Nevada alone -- costing 10,000 police hours just for "processing.") More than half of all federal inmates are now nonviolent drug inmates.

According to the government-funded National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 800,000 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time in 1991. But in 2000, according to the same survey, 1.6 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time. "If arresting more people is supposed to stop kids from trying marijuana, it seems not to be working," comments Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in D.C.

What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site <a href="http://www.spr.org" target="_blank">http ://www.spr.org</A> , where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."

The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:

"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...

"If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your anus is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life.

"In many situations you are better off agreeing to do something (masturbating, oral sex, sex with a condom) rather than just resisting until you are overwhelmed and forced to deal with unprotected anal sex from one or many guys. You may feel you should resist to the end, but that would put your life in danger. There is no shame in doing what you have to do to survive; nothing changes the fact that rape is involved and you are not morally or legally responsible for it; these compromises are just pathways to your survival. It may even be to your advantage to develop skills in oral sex so that guys you have to deal with will be satisfied with that alone. Don't feel guilty about it; you're just trying to save your life...."

Feeling pretty comfortable now with what the legal system is doing to these 77,000 nonviolent pot-smokers in your name? (And those are just the ones who end up doing hard time, mind you. Remember, 646,000 were arrested in 2000. Do you suppose most of them had a nice, restful night in jail? Do you realize, if their families spent a few thousand dollars apiece on legal fees, that adds up to more than a billion dollars, and taxpayer costs for lost police time are several times that?)

Still going to tell me that treating them in this manner is just the way you show your "compassion" as you seek to "protect them from the health risks" of lighting up a joint, not to mention "sending the right message to the children"?

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mazar

this is just another example of how evil the current War on Drugs is. On the law-abiding side, we cheer on the politicians who loudly proclaim that they're going to be "tough on drugs and crime," with the misconcieved lie that they are "protecting our children" from the scourge of drugs.

i've seen some of these "drug-free kids" every so often. real nice bunch, aren't they? always using profanity and threatening people they don't even know. but oh yes, they're drug-free.

everywhere these anti-drug warriors--kids, adults--say the worst possible things about people who smoke pot. they wish murder and rape for us, and aren't to be trusted. this is an evil war, one that persecutes millions of otherwise law-abiding, peaceful citizens who actually have the nerve to pay taxes to support this stupid and evil war.

the only thing that will eventually beat the War on Drugs is the simple fact that people continue to use. we are not saintly people, we are average citizens with the same tendencies as "straight" people. the Alachua County incident is yet another reminder that we are persecuted, we are never listened to, and we are slated for a very real, physical extermination.

fight the war on drugs. peace.

--mazar

dezzy533

sucks to be him.

Formulaic Insanity

"His cell mate held a ballpoint pen"

what a pussy...he got raped while being held at pen-point

don't remember

[quote]Originally posted by Formulaic Insanity:
<strong>"His cell mate held a ballpoint pen"

what a pussy...he got raped while being held at pen-point </strong><hr></blockquote>

A ballpoint in the neck would work just as good as a knife.

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Sleeping Pills
Common side effects include:
*night terrors

- I'll take another hit to ease the pain of being inbetween hits.

Formulaic Insanity

maybe if you're a pussy it would