Litigation & Arbitration
Sep. 28, 2023
100s of women sue over sexual assault in state prisons
New York attorney Adam P. Slater said his firm represents more than 500 women who were sexually abused at four prisons in California, including the Federal Correctional Institution Dublin.
Hundreds of women have filed lawsuits this year claiming they were sexually assaulted while incarcerated in California prisons.
Like some other institutions that have seen a flood of such claims -- notably Roman Catholic dioceses across the nation -- a recent state law has aided these cases. But Adam P. Slater, managing partner with Slater Slater Schulman LLP in New York, also credited a changing culture around reporting sexual assault.
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