Rape Behind Bars

Rape Behind Bars

Imagine that you are a trapped in a world of men who take pleasure in harming and demeaning you. Every day, they call you a lowlife and a faggot. You're kicked and punched until you bleed. You are brutally raped, by four different men. There is nowhere for you to go and nowhere you can turn for help. When you report it to the authorities, they tell you to keep quiet.

Milan Gamiani doesn’t have to imagine any of that. He lived it in 2010, he says, at a correctional center in Manhattan, where he was sent for refusing to testify against a boyfriend who was charged with financial crimes. “I was beaten many times,” he told me. “I was mocked, abused, robbed of the few possessions I had, made to do things I never wanted to.”

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