For far too many incarcerated people, it’s almost as if sexual assault is part of their prison sentence, writes Judge Reggie B. Walton. He says considerable progress has been made over the past two decades to end prison rape, but it hasn’t been nearly enough.
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A woman who was held at the Portsmouth City Jail last May is suing the sheriff and a deputy for allegedly forcing her and another woman to expose their genitals to prove they were on their menstrual cycle.
As New York opens a one-year window for survivors of adulthood sexual abuse to bring otherwise time-barred claims, incarcerated individuals who were abused by prison staff have an opportunity to seek redress, and can rely on a recent federal court decision to assess potential remedies, says Jaehyun Oh at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Firm.