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| | [PRISONACT] Male guards, female prisoners, and coercion behind bars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In total, according to information obtained from the state's Office of Risk Management, nearly a half-million dollars has been paid out in settlements since 1998, including a $150,000 award to Heather Wells, a WCCW prisoner who alleged she was raped by a guard and who later conceived his child. |
 | | She recalls that the guard began his "seduction" by pulling her aside on her second day in the minimum-custody unit at WCCW and asking her if she had ever been with other women. |
 | | At WCCW, says Stewart, 57 percent of correctional officers are men, and 43 percent are female.) Human rights organizations including AIUSA and many prisoner advocate groups are calling for women's prisons to be predominantly or entirely staffed by women. |
| www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2001-September/004193.html (1623 words) |
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