Is NY Concealing Sex Assault Accusations Against Prison Workers?
A nonprofit hotline which connects New York’s incarcerated victims of sexual assault with outside rape crisis centers, went up to 5,795, an average of 16 calls per day, in 2020..
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The New York prison system, managed by the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, may be suppressing incarcerated people’s complaints of sexual assault against its guards, discounting their testimony, and failing to hold anyone accountable, reports Victoria Law for The Intercept. The allegations stem from the case of Robert Adams, an incarceree at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in upstate New York, who has accused two guards, Eladio Cruz and Nicholas May, of physically and sexually assaulting him. Meanwhile, a hotline operated by the nonprofit New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which connects incarcerated victims with outside rape crisis centers, went up to 5,795, an average of 16 calls per day, in 2020.
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