The Rape Victims Silenced By Their Prison Cells
Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
7-16-2016
Abstract
A prison chaplain who admitted to sexually assaulting three inmates may spend less than a year behind bars. Why don’t we seem to care?
When Leticia Villarreal, 42, began her prison sentence at McPherson Unit, a women’s facility in Arkansas, she throbbed with anger and pain. She was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. She didn’t speak English. No one visited, no one called. She deeply missed her children. She was, for the first time in her life, utterly alone.
Source Publication
BuzzFeed, Inc.'s HuffPost Women
Recommended Citation
Smith, Brenda V. and Jeltsen, Melissa, "The Rape Victims Silenced By Their Prison Cells" (2016). Popular Media. 371.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/371
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