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Abstract: 

A comprehensive review of the scientific and legal literature and popular press accounts of the experiences of sex offenders in prison. James Robertson, professor of law at of Minnesota State University and legal editor of Correctional Law Reporter, examines the plight of Jordan Dongarra, imprisoned at USP Canaan for bank robbery, who was affixed with an ID that identified him a sex offender. He wasn’t, and feared for his safety and life knowing the consequences that awaited him when he entered the general population wearing, in effect, a Scarlet A. Robertson’s sweeping survey cites a score of books, law reviews, and scholarly papers in surveying prison rape, the status of sex offenders as “marked men” in many prison systems, the “physical injury” rule of PLRA, sexual coercion, and strategies sex offenders use to “pass” in the prison general population.

Keywords: Dongarra v. Smith 27 F.4th 174, 177 (3d Cir. 2022); Sex Offenders in Prison; Sexual Punishments

Affiliations:  1: Minnesota State University.