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Kenell Spruce, right, a bisexual man convicted of forgery, testifies how we was assaulted by as many 27 prisoners in an Arkansas prison during a public hearing before the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission in San Francisco, Friday Aug. 19, 2005. Listening at left is T.J. Parsell who testified how as a 17-year-old that he was gang raped in an adult prison in Michigan. The congressional committee was formed to set new national policies to help prevent prison sexual assaults. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)