Last month, a California woman spoke to reporters about a horrific interaction she had with a Border Patrol agent. The agent worked at the Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas, where the woman’s 12-year-old son was being held. The Clint facility was already in the news, following lawyers’ accounts of children detained there
“Please help us!” This plea from an incarcerated woman — said to me and my colleague at Just Detention International-South Africa (JDI-SA) during a Women’s Month event at a facility in Limpopo on 23 August — summarises the sense of desperation among incarcerated women we have spoken with. So it was disappointing that this Women’s
“Eusebius spoke to a survivor of prison rape, Isak Sass, about his story, and also to Just Detention International (South Africa) who does important work on injustices in correctional services and within the justice system more generally.” Listen to the interview here.
A former Kansas prison employee accused of sexual misconduct claims the charges aren’t valid because state law cites consensual touching — and his alleged interactions with the women weren’t consensual. Tomas Co, who taught women how to make dentures at Topeka Correctional Facility, is charged in Shawnee County District Court with five felony counts of unlawful sexual
Prisoner rape is a devastating crime that occurs with staggering frequency. Every year, roughly 200,000 people are sexually abused in U.S. prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities. It may be tempting to dismiss this violence as a problem that primarily afflicts states with large prison systems, like California, Louisiana, and Texas. But states that lock