Sexual Assault on the Rise at Rikers




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Summary: <p>John H. Tucker discusses his recent investigation for <em>New York Magazine</em>,<em> </em>“<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/rape-at-rikers.html">Rape at Rosie’s</a>,” along with Darcell Marshall, who is featured in the piece and won $1.2 million in a suit against the city last year.  A recent anonymous survey of 53,000 inmates in 358 jails nationwide put Rikers’ Rose M. Singer Center among the top ten worst jails in the country. Tucker’s investigation looks into how female inmates are being sexually assaulted by staff. Of the 307 allegations of sexual misconduct made in 2016 and 2017, 85% of those cases haven’t been resolved. Of the 45 cases that have been resolved, the Department of Corrections has ruled in favor of the female complainant only once.</p> <p><em>This segment is guest hosted by Arun Venugopal.</em></p>