HONOLULU, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A lawsuit charges that a prison warden in Hawaii forced female inmates to reveal intimate sexual details in front of male inmates.
In her complaint, Alexandra Gregg, a former inmate at the Kauai Community Correctional Center, said Neal Wagatsuma ordered women to detail histories of child sexual abuse, Courthouse News Service reported Wednesday. The lawsuit says young and attractive inmates were singled out for public shaming.
In addition to Wagatsuma, the Department of Public Safety and its director Ted Sakai are named as defendants. Gregg is seeking class-action status.
"Defendant Wagatsuma's public sexual shamings of female detainees at KCCC involved a myriad of improper, intolerable, and illegal acts," Gregg's complaint said. "For example, defendant Wagatsuma belittled and derided female detainees in front of other male detainees and required the female detainees to hold up provocative, sexual photographs of themselves as he called them 'whores.'"
