A Victory in the Fight to Stop Prisoner Rape
- Jesse Lerner-Kinglake
- September 2, 2016
- Prison Legal News
In 2012, Cornelius, a prisoner at a Florida state prison, wrote a letter to a nearby rape crisis center. Cornelius had been sexually assaulted multiple times while incarcerated. The first time was a gang rape that had happened 17 years earlier at a boot camp, when he was just 19 years old. Roughly a decade