Month: July 2018

Prison Rape Allegations Are on the Rise

  • Alysia Santo
  • July 25, 2018
  • The Marshall Project

For a long time in the popular imagination, prison rape was, quite literally, a joke. Most cop shows could be counted on for a biting aside or two about dropping soap in a jail shower. But in Washington, some prisoner advocates took the problem seriously, pushing for the passage of the federal Prison Rape Elimination

The Rape Jokes We Still Laugh At

  • Rodney Roussell
  • July 9, 2018
  • New York Times

In the #MeToo era, punch lines about sexual assault in jail remain acceptable. That needs to change.  In this video Op-Ed, Rodney Roussell tells his painful story for the first time on camera. Convicted of check fraud, Mr. Roussell spent nine years in prison in Louisiana, where he was raped and sold into sexual

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