Sexual abuse in prison is one of America's oldest, darkest, and yet most open, secrets. Both male and female inmates are faced with this shameful reality. The huge difference is male inmates are raped by their fellow inmates while female inmates are sexually abused from the very individuals charged with ensuring their safety, prison guards. In fact the sexual misconduct of male prison guards towards female inmates appears to be standard operating procedure all across the country. The evidence is indisputable and well documented.
Prison Rapes 'Routine'
by Joanne Wasserman, Daily News Staff Writer
New York Daily News, January 28, 2003
Female inmates are routinely raped and sexually abused by guards in New York's state prisons—and two women have become pregnant, according to a lawsuit to be filed today in Manhattan Federal Court.
In the court papers, the Legal Aid Society names 15 women—many of them originally from New York City—who charge they were sexually abused by 10 correction officers.
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