Senate Report Finds Thousands of Cases Alleging Sexual Abuse of Women Behind Bars, Spanning Two-Thirds of U.S.
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Linda De La Rosa, and was originally published here.
Previewing a hearing on Tuesday exploring sexual abuse against incarcerated women in the United States, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) released a report finding that U.S. prison authorities opened 5,415 cases accusing Bureau of Prisons staff of committing such abuses.
Male BOP employees, including senior officials, sexually abused women locked up in at least two-thirds of the federal prisons that have held them in the past decade, the report found.
Since his election on Jan. 6, 2021, Ossoff has used his perch as a U.S. Senator to focus on criminal justice reform and incarceration. His latest report follows another one from September with likewise eye-popping statistics, accusing the Department of Justice of undercounting at least 990 deaths in federal lockup. The DOJ strongly disputed those findings.
On Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time, Ossoff and his colleagues on the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation that he leads will focus on the story of three formerly incarcerated women sharing their stories of abuse: Carolyn Richardson, Briane Moore and Linda De La Rosa.
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