DOJ declares AL women's prison has "a history of unabated staff-on-prisoner sexual abuses"
The U.S. Department of Justice said today that conditions at Julia Tutwiler Prison violate the Constitution, citing what it called "a history of unabated staff-on-prisoner sexual abuses and harassment."
DOJ sent investigators to Tutwiler last April and reported their findings in a 36-page letter to Gov. Robert Bentley.
"The women at Tutwiler universally fear for their safety," the report stated.
"They live in a sexualized environment with repeated and open sexual behavior, including: abusive sexual contact between staff and prisoners; sexualized activity, including a strip show condoned by staff; profane and unprofessional sexualized language and harassment; and deliberate cross-gender viewing of prisoners showering, urinating and defecating," the report stated.
http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/01/department_of_justice_finds_un.html#incart_2box
