I am speaking from experience: we were able to minimize the Bubbas of this world. In NZ.

I stay out of the USA for a whole pile of reasons: one of which is that your justice system is unjust, overly punitive, and your police forces are over armed, and without any sense of humour.

I now run a team working in an acute psychiatric unit: we have similar issues and we manage them. Any sexual incident is considered serious and grounds for an enquiry.

It’s how I make my money: I know what I’m doing — in fact I am one of the few researchers who look a patient-initiated violence properly. If in doubt use google scholar: I use my real name here.

It required counts of all cutlery (and we were using plastic cutlery) and regular searches.

And we managed to minimise this for a while when we had the remandees in a separate prison (run by a private contractor, who could fire staff). When the socailists came in and listened to the prison union the old bad habits of tolerating gangs came back.

I don’t do forensic work any more: but it can be done. The problem is that most governments, including the ones in NZ, are not prepared to pay the money and put in the effort for the decade or so it will take to change things.

Otherwise, prison justice will work: Bubba chooses his victims only from those he is let at (which is why gangs have so much power).

Manage prison gangs. Absurd, been tried endless times in endless ways . . . impossible.

“Let’s reform prisons” and “Let’s hold prison management accountable” is the same mewling rap i have heard four decades now, and then all the Commissions and Review Boards meet for a couple months, and a few years later they draft new rules, which are promptly ignored.

Quickly, it’s back to business-as-usual.

The harsh truth is, westerners support the torture and rape of (OTHER! lol) males in mammy’s mancages — as indeed they support and/or permit the mass caging of males in western cuntries, largely upon the whims of females and the “laws” derived from females (i.e., their wives and daughters, who rule over them, and before whom they submit).

“Reforming” evil — and the U.S. prison system is possibly the most offensive institution before God upon this rotten planet — is another way of saying “I’m basically OK with rape and torture in cages, so I will pretend I’m a reasonable and responsible person, and take the easy out of a “reform” that never happens, and never can.
Truly, “Christianity” at its most modern.

I can tell a good prison from a bad by the number of self harm attempts, and the number of suicides.

Admittedly, I live in a country that does not casually incarcerate one in fifty males, and where everyone fears Bubba. I live in a country where most police are unarmed. And I consider the US a risky place to visit — not because of the slums, but because you have to interact with the TSA, and aliens have NO rights.