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Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard
• MotherJonesMichelle Ortiz was serving one year at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, a state prison in Marysville, when she was molested by a male guard. A recent article in the Columbus Dispatch describes what happened next:
When Ortiz reported the first assault to prison official Paula
Jordan, the official told the inmate that the male guard was being
transferred from the facility and was "just a dirty old man." That same
evening, the male guard assaulted her again.