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Name: The rape jokes we still laugh at — a prisoner's story
Uploaded: 2018-10-30T06:16:19Z
Duration: 4 min 49 s
Description: Every year, 200,000 inmates are raped in American prisons. Despite the awareness of sexual assault in the #MeToo era, jokes about prison rape remain acceptable. To former-inmate Rodney Roussell, they’re a painful reminder of the years he spent as a sex slave in an Oklahoma prison.

The rape jokes we still laugh at — a prisoner's story

Published 23 August 2018, 7:21 am

Every year, 200,000 inmates are raped in American prisons. Despite the awareness of sexual assault in the #MeToo era, jokes about prison rape remain acceptable. To former-inmate Rodney Roussell, they’re a painful reminder of the years he spent as a sex slave in an Oklahoma prison.