'My life was a living hell.' Three survivors of sexual assault in federal prison described years of horrific abuse by prison staffers who used their unfettered access to vulnerable inmates and threatened them with retaliation if they reported the attacks.
WASHINGTON – Three survivors of sexual assault in federal prison described years of horrific abuse by prison staffers who used their unfettered access to vulnerable inmates and threatened them with retaliation if they reported the attacks.
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., delivers brief remarks about a school massacre in Texas before a meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in his office on Capitol Hill on May 25. Last week, a former warden of a California federal prison, known as the"rape club," was convicted on eight criminal counts for his abuse of three inmates.
The testimony of the former inmates, however, represented a powerful condemnation of the agency's past response to such abuse, while the committee reported that the internal investigations unit is plagued by a backlog of 8,000 investigations including hundreds of sexual assault claims.
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