Long-ignored Problem: Prison Rape
- January 5, 2015
- Associated Press
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
This Charity Sends Christmas Cards To Prison Rape Survivors
- Jessica Testa
- December 23, 2014
- BuzzFeed
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,
Appeals court: Cross-gender strip searches of inmates unconstitutional
- Bill Mears
- June 6, 2011
- CN
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,
How did homeless advocate Troy Isaac become who he is today?
- Kevin Ferguson
- January 14, 2012
- KPCC
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
Federal Investigators Looking Into Sex Abuse Allegations at Arkansas Prison
- Jerad Fisher
- July 13, 2015
- (NPR - Little Rock, AK)
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