Thursday, 1 May 2014, AUSTIN, TEXAS - Should some of our readers find dwelling on prisoner-on-prisoner rape including that of youths hard to stomach, these readers are assured it is not pleasant to have to report. Regardless of what the The Ninth Amendment editorial board and some others may think of what a society (in this case the people of state of Texas) presumably sees as just punishments including any expected resultant suffering from due process of law as set forth in the United States and state constitutions, we find deplorable conditions which reasonably may be avoided that can be expected to inflict further suffering even worse than the original punishment while in the State's custody to be repugnant to fundamental principles of justice and humanity.
Texas Idiot Lame-Duck Governor Rick "Payback" Perry last week at least briefly turned his attention to the state he governs long enough to refuse Texas' certification that it meets minimum federal prison standards to reduce prisoner-on-prisoner rapes including segregation of 17-year-old youths sentenced as adults from adult prison populations.
"If You Ain't Got The Bucks, You're Sh*t Out Of Luck" Perry asserted that Texas has its own prisoner-on-prisoner rape reduction standards of some sort which he apparently deems a sufficient substitute at least theoretically for the federal standards he rejects. Whatever the Texas standards might be the result is that more than one of the State's prisons has been reported to have among the highest prisoner-on-prisoner rape rates in the country.
Nor reportedly does the State segregate 17-year-old youths sentenced as and serving time as adults from the rest of the older general adult population in Texas state prisons. Should this be the case the Ninth Amendment lacks information and is at a loss to explain how this seemingly clear downward deviation from minimum federal standards which specifically require for obvious reasons youths' segregation from older adult prisoners could possibly not be and/or has not been recognized by the State as anything but a failure under whatever state standard as it has not achieved the unambiguous result of segregating 17-year-olds from adult inmates.
The Ninth Amendment encourages the people of the State of Texas to remain informed and aware of the decisions and actions on such important issues by those they have chosen to govern their great state and will be mindful when making future choices as to those persons elected to govern Texas what decisions and actions those candidates reasonably may be expected to make on a wide range of major issues which will affect most every one of those voters, their future generations, as well as all their fellow Texans including those who for various reasons cannot vote.
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The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution is the strongest statement therein that powers not expressly granted the State are retained as rights of the People. The State has misconstrued, misrepresented, ignored, and denied the People's rights by elimination of protections reserved alone to them, not recognized by the Supreme Court, the Legislative, and worst the Executive Branch in the illegitimate exercise of draconian powers which unlawfully disparage the inalienable rights of the People.
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