Incarcerated women uncovered a history of medical experimentation and abuse at their prison, which they detail in Who Would Believe a Prisoner?.
, singled out and punished prisoners for masturbation and even the ability to feel sexual pleasure, which they regarded as a disease. Anastazia Schmid, a formerly incarcerated scholar who contributed to the book, wrote, “Parvin raped his female patients by digitally ‘examining’ them. When he induced orgasm, he then declared their bodily response was ‘proof’ of a woman’s sexual deviance and disease.
The medical abuse of the women held at the Indiana Women’s Prison was part-and-parcel with sexual violence they routinely faced from prison staff, per testimony that Schmid and other incarcerated scholars uncovered through archival research. One woman, Eva, was infected with syphilis after repeatedly being raped by a steward at the prison; she sued the prison but was dismissed because of her status as an incarcerated woman. The book is titled after her experience: “You can’t believe that woman.
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