Sounds like this law is a violation of the Arizona Constitution's "Equal protection" clause and also of the "Equal Protection" clause in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
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Montini is referring to this blurb in another article which I posted today which says:
<blockquote>
   "Arizona's Victims’ Bill of Rights,
   which became part of the state
   Constitution 25 years ago,
   guarantees victims the right to be
   heard at any court proceeding. But
   the law does not apply to inmates —
   even if they also are crime victims.
</blockquote>
That was in an article titled
<blockquote>
    No jail for 13 people charged
    in inmate sex crimes
</blockquote>
I posted that article earlier this morning
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The bottom line is if you are a cop that haves a gun and a badge, or are a prison guard you can rape any woman you want and not worry about being punished.
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I guess free sex with any woman is a job perk that only folks in law enforcement enjoy.
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http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2016/02/02/montini-sex-crimes-against-inmates-no-big-deal/79679440/
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Montini: Sex crimes against inmates? No big deal…
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EJ Montini, The Republic | azcentral.com 6:33 a.m. MST February 2, 2016
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A criminal can’t be a victim.
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Not in Arizona.
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If you are in custody for a criminal offense, any offense, or even if you’ve only been arrested and not yet charged, any bad action against you simply means you’re getting what you deserve.
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Whenever I write about something like this I receive calls that mimic a reader’s remark from years ago. He said: “If you do something that puts you in jail then what happens to you is your own damn fault. So shut up. Period.”
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I’ve heard that again and again.
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It's why I wouldn’t expect any big public uproar or outrage from lawmakers over Craig Harris’ excellent report on 13 defendants, most of them state correctional officers, having received no prison time for sex or sexual conduct with inmates or parolees over the past four-plus years. It's not as if people aren't troubled by such conduct. But not so much that we elect individuals who would do anything about it.
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In other words…shut up.
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Period.
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We’re not particularly troubled by news like this because the victims were not “innocent.”
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That’s how it has been in Arizona for as long as I can remember.
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Back in 1992, when the state resumed the death penalty if took condemned murderer Donald Eugene Harding more than ten minutes to die after cyanide was dropped into sulfuric acid beneath his chair. Gasping. Writhing in his restraints. I expressed horror over the execution and was told, essentially…
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Shut up.
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In 1996 a delusional man named Scott Norberg was arrested by police, with whom he scuffled. He was taken to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County Jail, where he died after being brutalized in a restraint chair. I can’t tell you how many calls I received saying he got what he deserved. I heard the same thing after writing about a mentally disabled man named Charles Agster who died the same way. Norberg’s family accepted an $8.25 million settlement. Agster’s family was awarded $9 million by a jury. I agreed with those awards and thought more should have been done to those most responsible for the deaths and was told, essentially…
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Shut up.
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A few years back a mentally ill prison inmate named Marcia Powell, a drug addict and prostitute, died after having been left in an outdoor chain-link enclosure at a state prison complex during the terrible heat. An outrage, I said…
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Shut up.
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Then there was the recent execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood, who took almost two hours to die, gasping and gulping, while lethal execution drugs were pumped into him 15 times. A botched, inhumane disgrace…
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Shut up.
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Period.