Sexual misconduct in women's facilities: the current climate.
Corrections Today › Vol. 65 Nbr. 6, October 2003
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Sexual misconduct in women's facilities: the current climate.
Jackie Noyes caused a sensation when her story hit the papers last spring. The 24-year-old mentally ill female inmate at Wisconsin's Taycheedah Correctional Institution had been sent to disciplinary segregation as punishment after she was impregnated by a TCI correctional officer. The moment her situation was described publicly, it became a scandal.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Abuse of Power in Prison" headlined a searing editorial that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran about the case, and several hard-hitting news articles followed. Battered by the publicity, Taycheedah officials released Noyes from segregation--but not before the reputation of the facility had been linked in the public mind to what the Journal Sentinel described as "guards who take advantage of their public trust for the sake of sex." Such cases, unfortunately, are not as unusua...See the full content of this document
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