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No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons

No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons

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Mariner, Joanne

Human Rights Watch (New York, NY)

Published 2001. 378 pages.

The "complex dynamics of male prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse in the United States" is examined (p. xvi). Sections of this report include: summary and recommendations; background; legal context; predators and victims; rape scenarios; body and soul -- the physical and psychological injury of prison rape; anomaly or epidemic -- the incidence of prisoner-on-prisoner rape; and deliberate indifference -- state authorities response to prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse. Case histories follow each chapter. Appendixes include excerpts from prisoners' letters and copies of miscellaneous documents. Accession Number: 016939

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