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
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., July 25, 2018 — A new Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, released today, shows that reports of sexual abuse in detention nearly tripled between 2011 and 2015. In 2011, corrections administrators recorded 8,768 inmate reports of sexual victimization, compared to 24,661 in 2015. The study, titled Sexual Victimization Reported
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