The Indonesia prison chief plans to isolate LGBT prisoners to avoid ’transmission’, local media reported Thursday (11 July).
‘If sexual deviations are found in either male inmates or female inmates, the first step taken will be to separate LGBT prisoners from normal inmates by placing them in isolation rooms’ director-general of corrections Ade Kusmanto said, according to Detik.
‘This step will be taken so that there is no transmission of sexual disorientation to other inmates’ he said.
A prison official earlier this week said prison overcrowding will result in ‘homosexuals and lesbians.’
He also claimed inmates have been doing ‘deviant’ acts to one another.
A large number of people in Indonesia, where LGBT rights are in decline, see homosexuality as a disease that can be transmitted between people.
They also believe dangerous conversion therapy can ‘cure’ people.
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Sex between males is extremely common. After all there are no females around so the pretty younger men and the gay boys and men are preyed upon by the hardened (sic) criminals and routinely raped in return for protection from others. Last I read the prison authorities do not hand out condoms or gels. So the spread of HIV becomes easy.
I doubt if isolating gay prisoners will achieve much good though. There will still be routine rapes. But I do think quite a few of the gay guys will actually be quite happy that they are not going to be preyed upon and used as sex objects by the straight macho prisoners. As hylander says, it will be interesting to see how the experiment turns out.
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