November 13, 2003 NEW YORK – A survivor of sexual assault in prison spoke before the New York City Committee on Fire & Criminal Justice Services today, bringing his perspective on the abuse he experienced to a hearing aimed at improving oversight on sexual assault in the city’s jails. T.J. Parsell, a New York state
December 10, 2003 COLUMBUS, OH – A report released today asserts that three whistleblowers are speaking out about the sexual abuse of inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW). The inmates face a climate of frequent sexual abuse and are routinely placed in solitary confinement for reporting it, according to the former ORW employees
March 16, 2004 LOS ANGELES – Three months after the nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) released a hard-hitting report on the sexual abuse of female inmates in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, Ohio’s Correctional Institution Inspection Committee will meet Wednesday, March 17, to discuss approaches to preventing sexual assault behind bars. On
May 3, 2004 LOS ANGELES – The reported sexual degradation and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war is a deplorable violation of fundamental human rights that rises to the level of torture, the group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) said today. Lara Stemple, the executive director of the national human rights group, called recently reported
October 7, 2004 LOS ANGELES – The nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape today released a report calling attention to the problem of sexual abuse of immigration detainees in the United States and urging much-needed improvements to the detention policies of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The report, No Refuge