Set in one of the coldest and windiest small towns in Australia, Cooma prison holds a dark secret. Not only was it reopened in with the specific purpose of incarcerating men for "homosexual offences", it was also said to be used as a human testing ground with the ultimate goal of eradicating homosexuality from society. Cooma's jail is believed to have been the only known homosexual prison in the world, according to a new podcast. Until now, even some prison staff say they didn't know the real reason gay prisoners were segregated there.
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My abuse started in the County Jail where I was raped by four inmates. He said that I should come down out of the air. Still I was being asked for sex and told that I would have to give myself over one way or another; at this point looking back on the matter , I can see that I was going through a brake down mentally. Anyway that night I'd made up my mind that I was taking my life for it seemed as if that was the only way out of that Hell.
Accueil Tous les volumes Vol. XIII Dossier : Sexualité et institutio This paper explores intimate linkages between race, sexuality and mass incarceration in the state of California in the USA. We suggest carceral intimacies as an integrative framework that captures how power is negotiated by prisoners through intimate relationships in prison settings.