Listen to Support it, WNYC Studios. Hey everyone. This is Notes from America and I know you were expecting Kai.

This time of week he's been getting on the call with people to talk about the election and about politics and you should not worry.

Kai will be back covering all those important issues with insightful people throughout the election.

But this week he gave me a call,

even though I don't cover national politics.

My name is Christopher Wirth.

I'm an editor at WNYC.

Kai and I actually used to work together on his show. More recently, I've been working in our New York

Newsroom on an investigation into something very troubling and I think very revealing about

the pervasiveness of sexual violence in our correction

system. Kai heard that report and he thought we should share it with you. So I'll do

that now and then Kai is going to join us later in this episode to talk

about what has happened since we first

reported this story. And just to note, this episode contains detailed descriptions

of sexual assault. So be mindful of that and who else may be listening around you. It is not an easy listen, but I think you'll agree it's a really important one.

Nine years ago, a woman named Jenny was convicted on a drunk driving charge and sentenced to 60 days at Rikers Island.

When she got to the women's jail there, she says she was placed in a big dormitory style housing unit with lots of other beds and right away the other women started to warn her.

They were like, oh you're one of the pretty ones, they're going to pick you and stuff like that.

At night, she says they told her, the guards would call out some of the women's names,

take them to secluded parts of the jail, and force them to have sex.

How many people would typically come in the night?

It usually be two people, and they would pick you up like if they're going to take you to go to work.

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