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Fish by T.J. Parsell5/22/2023 This is not loving sex or erotic sex, it is a business-like transaction at best, a violent transaction at worst. ‘Boys’ are forced to find a ‘man’ to protect them in return for sex. Lock a rowdy group of men in together without a sexual release and they turn into sexual predators, the strong preying on the weak. His experience in prison is rule rather than exception that much is clear from the beginning of the book. Many years after his release, Parsell was the president of Stop Prisoner Rape and he is currently a consultant to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Being a ‘fish’ (a ‘first-timer’ or ‘new arrival’ in prison slang) he was an easy target. But even if his crime had been more severe, he did not deserve to be gang-raped early on during his stay and systematically forced into sex throughout his time in prison. His family was poor and uneducated and his crime, robbery with a fake gun, was misguided and stupid more than anything else. Parsell was locked up in 1978 for a couple of years when he was a fairly naive 17 year old boy. Parsell has written a book called Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison which tells the story of the truth behind all those ‘dropping the soap in prison’ jokes.
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