'She Can't Tell Us What's Wrong'
Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. The victim couldn't tell anyone what happened that night. She was a woman with an intellectual disability who...
View ArticleHow Prosecutors Changed The Odds To Start Winning Some Of The Toughest Rape...
Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. There's a trial scheduled in March at the marble courthouse in Newark, N.J., of a man charged with kidnapping...
View ArticleFrom The Frontlines Of A Sexual Assault Epidemic: 2 Therapists Share Stories
Nora Baladerian and Karyn Harvey are both psychologists with an unusual specialty — they are among a small number of therapists who treat people with intellectual disabilities who have been the victims...
View ArticleIn Their Own Words: People With Intellectual Disabilities Talk About Rape
Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault. Somebody with an intellectual disability by definition has difficulty learning, reasoning or problem-solving. But many often think...
View ArticleStates Aim To Halt Sexual Abuse Of People With Intellectual Disabilities
Earlier this year, NPR reported that people with intellectual disabilities are victims of some of the highest rates of sexual assault. NPR found previously undisclosed government numbers showing that...
View ArticleTeaching Parents Of Kids With Disabilities To Fight Back
Our Take A Number series is exploring problems around the world, and people solving them, through the lens of a single number. At a graduation ceremony in a hotel ballroom outside Minneapolis, 28 men...
View ArticleIn Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women
When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what...
View ArticleIn Iowa, A Commitment To Make Prison Work Better For Women
The warden at the women's prison in Iowa recently instructed her corrections officers to stop giving out so many disciplinary tickets for minor violations of prison rules, like when a woman wears her...
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