#MeToo Behind Bars: How Federal Investigators Are Ignoring Prison Sexual Assaults They Are Hired To Report

Authors

Brenda V. Smith, American University Washington College of LawFollow
Lauren Lee White

Abstract

Janean Owens has been incarcerated at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women since 2009. In a civil lawsuit filed December 20, 2017, Owens alleged that since her arrival, she was sexually harassed and assaulted by multiple prison employees, six of whom she named in the complaint. According to Owens, she was forced to give and receive oral sex, groped, and constantly stared at.

Source Publication

Witness LA: Criminal justice journalism in the public interst

Recommended Citation

Brenda V. Smith & Lauren Lee White, #MeToo Behind Bars: How Federal Investigators Are Ignoring Prison Sexual Assaults They Are Hired To Report, Witness LA: Criminal justice journalism in the public interst (2018).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/289