One victim, Linda De La Rosa, told the committee her attacker had access to her personal files and used the information to gain leverage. 'My life was a living hell,' De La Rosa said, describing abuse that started in 2019 at a federal prison in Kentucky.
Colette Peters, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told the AP her vision for reforming the crisis-plagued agency pledging to reform its archaic hiring practices and hold accountable any employees who sexually assault inmates. 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.
The attacker was later charged and is now serving a 135-month prison sentence, but De La Rosa said the officer had been previously accused of sexual offenses against other inmates when he was stalking and attacking her. Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters, in an interview this week with USA TODAY, said Justice Department officials are considering the early release of inmates who were victims of the warden and other staffers at the prison.
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