Why Americans Don’t Care About Prison Rape
- Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
- March 2, 2015
- The Nation
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
Warders’ jobs are hard labour
- Aarti J Narsee
- January 28, 2015
- The Times
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
Long-ignored Problem: Prison Rape
- January 5, 2015
- Associated Press
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
This Charity Sends Christmas Cards To Prison Rape Survivors
- Jessica Testa
- December 23, 2014
- BuzzFeed
Every year, a group of men and women who were sexually assaulted while incarcerated gather to write holiday cards to victims still behind bars. In the months after Joe Booth was raped by another inmate in a California correctional facility, he recalls, he wrote somewhere between 20 and 50 letters to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors,
Appeals court: Cross-gender strip searches of inmates unconstitutional
- Bill Mears
- June 6, 2011
- CN
Bill Mears, CNN, January 6, 2011 An Arizona inmate has won an appeal of the civil rights lawsuit he filed against county jail officials after a female cadet conducted a search of the man’s genital areas and buttocks. A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Thursday concluded such cross-gender searches are “unreasonable” and unconstitutional,