State’s largest women’s prison must be held accountable for abuse

"While facing the dehumanizing gauntlet of the parole board, my clients must now weather the indignity of attempting to secure their liberty in a place where someone wielding a badge of authority is accused of raping dozens of their peers. Already, I have clients who are more frightened to participate in the parole process than ever before; frightened not only of what parole commissioners may force them to relive, but also of doing so in an environment where the brutality of our prison system is on fresh display."

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Julie Hess