In the last 10 years, nearly 5,500 rapes have been investigated in women’s prisons in the United States. Dams that have been raped by their jailers, by officials. A report uncovers a shameful reality: that of the sexual violence that is experienced in these prisons.
However, this data could be even higher, as there are many women who decide do not report out of fear. Now, some of them have promised to tell the truth about what happens in federal prisons in the United States to put an end to this situation.
Carolyn Richardson is one of these prisoners who has decided to tell what happened to her. She entered prison recently operated on for a corneal transplant. The official who accompanied her to the hospital was called Peralta. “In my hardest moments I thought that she cared for me when no one else did. I was wrong,” she admits now.
The truth is that the fact of treating him well had a reason, it didn’t take long for ask for something in return. “He began to ask me for sexual favors in exchange for the food and medicine he brought,” he admits. After six months of abuse, Carolyn ended up losing her vision.
She is not the only victim of these abuses. Briane Moore reveals that she woke up crying, having nightmares in which the captain “killed him for ratting him out.” Her prison was twelve hours from her home, so she couldn’t see her daughter and her mother.
A distance that she wanted to shorten by asking to be sent to a closer jail. However, the captain blackmailed him taking advantage of this situation. “He made it clear that if I didn’t do what she wanted I wouldn’t be transferred from prison and then he raped me“, he recounts.
For her part, Linda de la Rosa has confessed that her rapist had a record. “My attacker spent years at his job even though everyone knew he was a sexual predator,” he reveals. She did not hesitate to denounce this situation. However, in doing so, they began to make life miserable for him.
“All my belongings disappeared. I lost the letters from my son and my daughter’s father, who are now dead,” she recalls through tears.
The system has failed them and more than 5,000 women who have filed allegations of sexual abuse in US federal prisons in the last decade.
Source: Lasexta
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