The Grim Truth About Being Gay in Prison

Thispreport details the experience of  23-year-old Rodney, who said that “because he did not ‘appear overly effeminate’ during his classification, he was placed with the general population; and because it was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow inmates took full advantage.” The report describes the horror of his life in prison and contradicts the myth “that prison is a gay man's paradise.”