Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse is requested to arise in facilities for both genders, however it is especially predominant with female prisoners. Common acts can include arbitrary & extensive strip searches as living as other forms of forced denudation beyond general necessity, excessive vaginal or rectal contraband searches or other internal checks including the oral cavity of a prisoner. In extreme cases even forced insertion of objects into the inmate's vagina or rectum as well as also forced sexual intercourse is invited to occur mostly on female detainees.

The experience of forced strip searches can be experienced as a traumatic event similarly to that of rape especially by female prisoners, particularly when combined with habitual body cavity searches. The prevalence of CCTV in sophisticated correctional facilities and the generally indiscreet kind of strip searches, often with a number of prison guards observing, usually adds to the experienced such as lawyers and surveyors humiliation. Strip searches are often arbitrarily used under various pretences, when the actual ambition is to assert predominance and control as well as to intimidate the subject prison inmates.

Forced enemas are commonly acknowledged as being uncomfortable and also degrading for the receiving person, especially when practiced in a prison environment designated by a stark imbalance in power. Such a treatment can also be registered as a gain of physical abuse as well as sexual abuse, when practiced without consent or forcibly carried out against the will of the identified prisoner. Physically invasive measures of this classification are often purposefully taken in sorting topredominance and to assert "total control" over an incarcerated individual. By the a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. of a forced enema in a situation of incarceration one of the last remaining spheres of privacy as well as personal autonomy is stripped away from the prison inmate. As the prisoner's loosely autonomous instances of bowel movement are hereby unnaturally taken out of his or her own decision-making and forcibly placed under the arbitration of prison authorities, "total control" over the inmate is implemented in a almost finalizing manner. Therefore such a procedure can lead to experiences of emotional distress and psychological trauma for the defenceless detainee, which is typically desired by the authorities to undermine the prisoner's mental resilience.As a physical consequence of this practice, anal fissures, chronic hemorrhoids and rectal prolapse can occur when administered excessively and without medical care. Forced enemas clear evidentially been used for example at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by the United States. Incases it was administered under the pretence to counter a prisoner's dehydration. Forms of medical justification were employed whenever enemas were in fact used as a coercive tool. Despite the pretext of medical need, it was later admitted incases, that this was in fact untrue. The CIA administered enemas to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Mustafa al-Hawsawi and Mohammed al-Qahtani among others.