NPR: Male Prison Employees Assault Women in At Least Two-Thirds of US Prisons
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Linda De La Rosa, and was originally published here.
A bipartisan Senate investigation has found male prison employees have assaulted women in at least two-thirds of the nation’s federal prisons. Women testify about their stories.
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JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
A bipartisan Senate investigation has found widespread abuse of women in prison by some of the male wardens, officers and volunteers tasked to protect them. The investigation uncovered evidence of sexual abuse in at least two-thirds of the federal facilities that housed women over the past decade. NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson reports. And just a warning – this story discusses sexual violence.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Briane Moore says a captain at the federal prison in Alderson, W.Va., began targeting her in 2017. Moore had been seeking a transfer to be closer to her daughter.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
BRIANE MOORE: He took me to areas that were isolated in the prison, where there were no cameras. He told me he knew I wanted to transfer to another prison. He said, the paperwork goes through me.
JOHNSON: Moore says she felt powerless.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
MOORE: He was a captain, with total control over me. I had no choice but to obey. (Crying) I always had to follow orders in prison. It is hard to fully describe how this felt.
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