She Says She Was Sexually Abused in New York Prisons. Now She's…

She Says She Was Sexually Abused in New York Prisons. Now She's…

Diagnosed with a terminal heart condition, Sierra Johnson sometimes spends weeks at a time in the hospital. But she’s determined to not let her health get in the way of her lawsuit against the state of New York. The 36-year-old Native American resident of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne sued the state in 2023, alleging that four of its employees sexually assaulted her while she was incarcerated in two state prisons in 2014 and 2017. At the end of…

She Says She Was Sexually Abused in New York Prisons. Now She's Fighting the State From Her Hospital Bed

This story was produced in partnership with New York Focus. The reporting was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.Diagnosed with a terminal heart condition, Sierra Johnson sometimes spends weeks at a time in the hospital. But she's determined to not let her health get in the way of her lawsuit against the state of New York.  The 36-year-old Native American resident of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne sued the state in 2023, alleging…