One New York State prison—Bayview Correctional Facility—has the highest rate of inmate-alleged staff sexual abuse in the country. With 11.5 percent of inmates there reporting it in 2008 and 2009, the prison’s rate of inmate- alleged sexual abuse was more than five times greater than the national average for women’s prisons, 2.2 percent. About 57 percent of the participating Bayview inmates alleged being forced into the sex or threatened with force.
(At left: Bayview Correctional Facility on West 20th Street, a medium security prison with a 144-bed capacity.)
Photo by Marc Fader
