Friday, August 29, 2003

"[An inmate] claimed me as his property and I didnt dispute it. I became obedient, telling myself at least I was surviving . . . . He publicly humiliated and degraded me, making sure all the inmates and gaurds knew that I was a queen and his property. Within a week he was pimping me out to other inmates at $3.00 a man. This state of existence continued for two months until he sold me for $25.00 to another black male who purchased me to be his wife."

"'You will clean the house,' he said, 'have my clothes clean and when Im ready to get my 'freak' no arguments or there will be a punishment! I will,' he said, 'let my homeboys have you or Ill just sale you off. Do we have an understanding?' With fear, misery, and confusion inside me . . . I said yes"

No Escape: Mare Rape in U.S. Prisons

Word of the Day
sclerotic: grown rigid or unresponsive, especially with age