Q: What can be done when an inmate has been sexually assaulted by a corrections officer?
My girlfriend was incarcerated at a women's prison facility in Virginia for several years. There's been two substantiated PREAS filed and found true. My girlfriend used 27 razor blades to take her own life when she was incarcerated all bc of this corrections officer and the way that she was treated.Thank goodness it wasn't her time to go and I am blessed with her presence, however, from my understanding she was code blue at the jail. She was released in April 2023 and she isn't the same and she has all kinds of separation anxiety and she used to be a totally different person. I don't know who to turn to for help or anything? Please can you please help me help her.
A: If she took her own life, how is she now home with separation anxiety?
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