The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (created by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003) held hearings recently in San Francisco.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

* The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (created by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003) held hearings recently in San Francisco. Victims told their stories; stones would weep. "What they took from me went beyond sex," said a 45-year-old software executive who had been raped in jail when he was 17. "They'd stolen my manhood, my identity, and part of my soul." Estimates of the scope of the problem vary, from 10 percent of the nation's inmates raped annually down to 1 percent. But even the latter figure equals 21,000 rape victims a year. The law-abiding might shrug off prison rape on the grounds that they had it coming. Yet jailhouse rapists ...