Welcome to Texas, prison rape capital of the U.S.

[Shana A]

Welcome to Texas, prison rape capital of the U.S.
Posted on 22 Mar 2012 at 5:06pm

Lone Star State home to 5 of 10 worst facilities for sexual assault of inmates, and LGBT prisoners are 15 times more likely to be victims

Daniel Villarreal  |  Contributing Writer

http://www.dallasvoice.com/texas-prison-rape-capital-u-s-10105138.html

In 2007, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice placed transgender woman Brittney Allen Young into the Powledge men's prison unit in Palestine.

Early in her sentence, Young's cellmate, Charles, began overpowering and raping her, according to a letter Young wrote to Dallas Voice recently.

Young says when she reported the assaults, the guards simply placed her in a different cell on the same wing where Charles and another inmate continued to rape her.