Month: August 2018

Amid reports of sexual extortion, other horrors, feds subpoena records, tour women’s prison

  • Julie K. Brown
  • August 10, 2018
  • The Miami Herald

For nearly two decades, the inmates inside Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama were raped, sodomized, forced to engage in oral sex and fondled by corrections officers as state corrections officials looked the other way. In 2013, the prison was considered among the 10 worst prisons in the nation. At least one third of

Sexual misconduct reports spike in California prisons

  • Adam Ashton
  • July 24, 2018
  • The Sacramento Bee

California prison inmates filed 1,150 complaints last year alleging they were mistreated sexually behind bars, a 29 percent increase over 2016. The numbers are striking, but victim advocates and state prison officials say the trend might actually reflect greater confidence among inmates that their complaints will be taken seriously since the department adopted policies complying

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