Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire

It was a Monday. My wife and I sat in the lawyer’s office as I told my story.  It wasn’t pretty. Three times over the past year, I had crossed physical and emotional boundaries with a 15-year old girl, the daughter of family friends.

Ten years ago, in August 2003, sixty-eight year old defrocked priest John Geoghan met his end while in protective custody in a Massachusetts prison cell.

I was listening to NPR on the jobsite last week. Terri Gross interviewed comedian Amy Schumer. Schumer jokes a lot about sex. But when she mentioned experiencing “something very similar to rape,” it caught my attention.

I was sitting in a holding cell in the prison’s Receiving and Diagnostics Unit waiting to be taken to a doctor’s visit. I couldn’t see who was in the cell next to me, but the guy was raving on about skinners this and skinners that.