Articles by Alex Coolman

Texas Jury Awards BOP Prisoner $4 Million for Rape by Guard

Loaded on July 15, 2004 by Alex Coolman published in Prison Legal News July, 2004, page 18

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution. Location: Texas.

DNA evidence and a powerful will to fight helped former federal Texas prisoner Marilyn Shirley win a sexual assault conAviction and a $4 million civil decision against a guard who raped her while she was being held in the Carswell federal prison camp in Fort Worth, Texas.

The June 2, ...

No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Watch Report by Joanne Mariner

Loaded on May 15, 2003 by Alex Coolman published in Prison Legal News May, 2003, page 16

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Reviews, Organizing. Location: United States of America.

Review by Alex Coolman

In April of 2001, Human Rights Watch released a report called No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prison. The report, written by Joanne Mariner, contains dozens of first-hand accounts of prisoner rape and sexual assault, stories that are both horrifying and sobering.

Some of the most ...