U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said that his investigation into the federal prison system demonstrates that the BOP is 'failing systemically to prevent, detect, and address sexual abuse of prisoners by its own employees.'
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The bipartisan committee focused in on four prisons across the country: FCI Dublin, Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Florida, Metropolitan Correctional Center New York and Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn. A sex assault survivor also told of her experience at the prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
"I felt worthless, like I was something less than human that he could do with as he wished," she testified. "I was terrified that he or other BOP staff would retaliate against me or take away my privileges. I was afraid of being questioned and doubted. I felt the shame and blamed myself for not speaking up about the abuse. I felt like I should have yelled and screamed when he was sexually assaulting me. Even though at that time I felt that I had no real voice.
The group vested with the power of investigating these sex abuse allegations have some cases that have been pending five years, making holding "wrongdoers accountable" nonexistent, the report stated. As for solutions, Professor Brenda V. Smith of American University, a national expert on sexual abuse in custodial settings, testified that "vigorous prosecution" is one way to hold officers accountable.
– and firing abusers. Ossoff’s Prison Camera Reform Act passed the Senate last year, but has still not passed in the House. It would require all prisons to have security camera coverage. And she said it's her job to change this culture, allowing women and their relatives to report abuses safely.
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