Healing From My Prison Rape Requires Time, Therapy — and Re…

Car Crash Missouri Today in Missouri: Lexie Handlang, a 38-year-old transgender woman incarcerated in a Missouri prison, was sexually assaulted (raped) by someone she considered a friend six months after arriving at the prison in 2014. After the attack, she had a rape kit performed at a local hospital and received therapy. Four months after the rape, she overdosed on her medication and nearly died. The article is a first-person essay about her ongoing recovery from the assault.