Formerly incarcerated women gathered outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday to recount the horrors of sexual abuse they say they endured during their time in New York state prisons.
Mia Wheeler, a former inmate at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the largest women's prison in the state, says she was raped numerous times on numerous occasions by a correctional officer. Supported by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, two other survivors told their stories --- but there are hundreds of other women with similar traumas.
Wheeler said that her alleged abuser threatened her and told her she would"reap the repercussions" if she told anyone. “I felt isolated and alone. After violations, after violations, I’m here with my sisters who share a painful bond," Wheeler said as she held back tears."But I ask that we be silent no more. There are too many victims who have fallen victim to rape and sexual assault that have fallen on deaf ears. Please, Department of Corrections, I implore you, change."
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