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[h2]http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/20/rape-factories[/h2]
[h2]Rape Factories[/h2][h3]Why is the government doing so little to end sexual assault in prisons?[/h3]
Lovisa Stannow from the July 2011 issue
In 1984 the photographer Tom Cahill smashed a plate-glass doorin a fit of fury at the San Francisco Chronicle. He hadjust unsuccessfully attempted to get the paper’s reporters to writeabout rape in America’s jails and prisons. Cahill was a desperateman at the time, tormented by flashbacks and nightmares, hispersonal and professional life in ruins.
Cahill’s story began in 1968, when he was arrested in Texasduring a peaceful antiwar protest. An Air Force vet who opposed theVietnam War, he did not prove popular among jail staff in theheavily military town of San Antonio. Before placing him in anovercrowded communal cell, he says, the guards spread word that hewas a child molester. Cahill remembers with a shudder how one ofthe staff members shouted “fresh meat