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Healing From My Prison Rape Requires Time, Therapy and Friends Who Don’t Blame the Victim

Lexie Handlang was sexually assaulted soon after she arrived in a Missouri prison. Here, she charts her ongoing road to recovery.

Life Inside • 06.26.2026

A Prison Rape Survivor Demands Smart, Safe and Humane Transfers

“I know how a relocation can exacerbate violence,” writes Johanna Mills. “Even when the place you’re leaving is so toxic that you can’t stay there.”

Life Inside • 11.22.2024

Why Showering in Prison Is Hell

“Step by step, I shuffle forward amid the mass of bodies, waiting to get inside.”

Life Inside • 01.10.2019

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