Every year, a group of men and women who were sexually assaulted while incarcerated gather to write holiday cards to victims still behind bars. In the months after Joe Booth was raped by another inmate in a California correctional facility, he recalls, he wrote somewhere between 20 and 50 letters to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors,
Bill Mears, CNN, January 6, 2011 An Arizona inmate has won an appeal of the civil rights lawsuit he filed against county jail officials after a female cadet conducted a search of the man’s genital areas and buttocks. A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Thursday concluded such cross-gender searches are “unreasonable” and unconstitutional,
Troy Erik Isaac is a homeless advocate who travels all over Los Angeles by foot helping any person he meets–he almost never ignores a phone call. But maybe even more compelling is his long, sometimes troubled history. Troy Isaac was born in Houston. He grew up in an unstable home and moved to Burbank when
Investigators from U.S. Department of Justice are set to arrive at the McPherson Correctional facility in Newport later this month. The probe of the women’s prison is looking into allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct. Cathy Frye, spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Correction, says the state is doing what it can to assist with
South African prisons are notorious the world over for their endemic sexual abuse. Despite this, prisoner rape is not well understood by the South African public and government, and does not receive the serious attention it urgently needs. This is according to a report compiled by Emily Nagisa Keehn, policy development and advocacy manager at