John would later estimate that it lasted seven minutes. When David was finished, he told him to keep quiet. John obeyed though still a fish, he had been down long enough to know that snitches suffer fates worse than rape.
I n 2003, while John was still in elementary school, Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, now usually known as PREA. It was intended to make experiences like his far less likely. But like many ambitious pieces of legislation, its promise has proved difficult to realize.
