Another lady at CCCF was sexually assaulted upon leaving the kitchen. This happens a lot more than one would think. Ladies are reluctant to report sexual assault or harassment here because staff retaliates against us. The ladies are then sent to the Segregation Unit where they become even more of a target for sexual predators and are not allowed to use the phone to call anyone, not even the Attorney General. If they are not sent to Segregation they are placed on loss of privileges on their units and not allowed to leave their cells or use the phone. When ladies write to the Governor or to the Attorney General’s office, CCCF tells them to complain to members of the CCCF staff, in which case the staff then makes them targets for retaliation. At this point we really have no one to turn to for help, not even to the Governor of Oregon.
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