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Thread on black men, sexual assault in prison, and Title 9 claims. I have a client, a young black man in prison, who gets sexually assaulted repeatedly by a guard. The guard shoves his hand down my client's pants and gropes him. When my client says no, he gets sent to lockdown.
In lockdown, the guards put my client in the one cell with no fan. Temperature soars near 100 degrees. There's urine on the floor. Roaches, spiders, and ants are crawling everywhere. No COVID precautions. Nothing to read, nothing to do but go crazy.
Meanwhile, I have a client, a young black man at an elite college, accused of sexual assault. The accuser filed a Title IX complaint claiming he put her hand on his penis over his pants without her consent. She and her friends denounce him publicly. They've canceled him.
My clinic is representing him pro bono--without us he would have no one because he has no $. The school is taking the accusation very seriously. The amount of work we've put in to defend him totals 100s of hours. My client says he didn't do it. He faces potential expulsion.
Meanwhile, no one gives a rat's ass that my incarcerated client gets sexually assaulted on a routine basis, that it's part of his daily existence, and that, as a victim, his fighting back leads to horrific consequences. I filed a PREA complaint but I am not optimistic.
Why is that a black man accused of the Title IX violation described in this thread could get thrown out of school and marked for life as a sex offender while a black man in prison who gets sexually assaulted regularly can expect more punishment for reporting it?
