Another female federal inmate files lawsuit over sexual abuse, rape by officer
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Another federal prison inmate has filed a lawsuit claiming she repeatedly was sexually assaulted by a convicted and imprisoned former correctional officer. Laura Mellor filed her complaint December 9 in the Northern District of Alabama’s Western Division against the federal government. She says correctional officer Adrian Stargell raped and sexually abused her for nearly two years while she was an inmate at an Alabama facility. “Prison employees raping female inmates is a pervasive problem across the country,” said Charleston attorney L. Dante diTrapano, one of t...