As a matter of fact, prison rape is very COMMON in Alabama prisons, that I know of:  Holman, Fountain, St. Clair, Donaldson.

We hear about it all the time, but the guys know that if they report it, nothing will happen to protect them.

Brian Corbett needs to be fired for lying about this!  
 
If you know about a prison rape in Alabama, please write about it to the prison commissioner and the governor.  
 
Here are their addresses:
 
Alabama Governor Bob Riley
governorbobriley@governor.state.al.us
600 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
1-334-242-7994
Fax 334-242-4541
 
Alabama Prison Commissioner Donal Campbell
DOC - Alabama Attn: COMMISSIONER
pio@doc.state.al.us
50 Ripley Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
Tel: 334/353-3883
Fax: 334/353-3891
Sherry
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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: did you see this?

 This is awful...........Do you all know anything about this Brian Corbett?!Corbett says they have no need of this info!! He must be blind....This is from N C paper.
 
 
 Alabama not reporting prisoner sexual assaults
 
 By JAY REEVES
 Associated Press Writer
 Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is pushing for a nationwide study of rape in prison, yet his own state doesn't routinely report such violence behind bars.
 
 The Alabama Department of Corrections regularly publishes statistics on physical assaults: 851 were recorded among the state's 28,000 inmates during the last fiscal year.
 
 But the agency does not release reports to show how many of those assaults involve rape - which the FBI classifies as a different crime - or whether the cases include other types of sexual assault.
 
 Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said the system, strapped for cash and overcrowded with inmates, typically has no need for such information.

 A check of investigative records for The Associated

 Press revealed only one verifiable report of an inmate-on-inmate sexual assault last year, Corbett said, and the nature of the attack was unclear. Prison investigators receive many reports of sexual assault that turn out to be instances of consensual sex acts, Corbett said.
 
 "There may be nothing to report" about rape, he said.
 
 But Sessions said he was troubled by a lack on verifiable information on prison rape in Alabama and other states. Sessions, R-Mobile, is co-sponsoring a bill to provide $13 million for a nationwide review.
 
 "I have believed that rape or sexual assault in prisons is not that common, but I don't know," said Sessions, a former federal prosecutor. "We need to find out how big the problem is."
 
 The executive director of a Birmingham-based agency that helps former prisoners with counseling and job searches suspects the state doesn't report assaults because it wants to hide the extent of inmate-on-inmate rape in Alabama prisons.
 

 "It's a huge problem in our state," said Hank Gray of Re-Entry Ministries Inc. "They are worried about being subjected to public scrutiny, maybe lawsuits."

 Gray's organization works with as 1,600 inmates annually as they leave Alabama prisons, and he estimates as many as 75 percent of them were raped or pressured for sex while incarcerated.
 
 Gray said an inmate at Donaldson Correctional Facility complained recently that young prisoners are regularly raped by older, stronger inmates at the prison, designed for 992 men but packed with 1,502 inmates.
 
 "They're fighting over them," he said.
 
 Alabama's prisons and work-release centers in January held 28,316 inmates, or twice the number of people they were designed for.
 
 Alabama is not alone in failing to track sex crimes behind bars, and there are no conclusive studies on the prevalence of rape in prison. Estimates on the number of inmates who are sexually assaulted vary widely.
 
 A report released in 2001 by the group Human Rights

 Watch cited a study that estimated 10 percent of all prisoners are raped by fellow prisoners. Alabama was among four states that failed to respond to requests for data in the study.
 
 In the report, Texas was the only state that provided precise numbers on prosecution. The state's prison system said in 1997 it had investigated a total of 519 cases of sexual assaults on inmates by other inmates, and only four cases resulted in prosecution.
 
 A separate study of the Nebraska prison system in 1996 found that 22 percent of male inmates acknowledged being pressured or forced into sex acts.
 
 A prosecutor in St. Clair County, site of the 1,400-man St. Clair Correctional Facility, doesn't remember prosecuting any inmates for prison rape in his 22 years in the office.
 
 Lamar Williamson, an assistant district attorney, said inmate victims generally refuse to file a report. "We almost never have a willing witness," he said.

 Gray, who works with ex-inmates, said former prisoners who acknowledge being sexually assaulted behind bars can receive one-on-one counseling through his ministry, but the numbers are overwhelming.
 
 "We're seeing so many it's very time consuming," he said. "They don't want to talk about it."