A corrections officer accused of sexually assaulting an inmate at the state's only women's prison was acquitted Tuesday of several charges in Hunterdon County.

Most allegations are never proven, but accusations of sex between inmates and staff keep coming at Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, the state’s largest women’s prison.

Fifteen years ago, President George Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act to address the epidemic of prison rape in our country’s prisons and jails. The same year PREA passed, Passion Star was 19 years old and identified as LGBT.

The minute Ashley Sawyer walked into prison in February of 2015, everyone knew who she was. Her partner, Annette Douglas, had died in the same facility one month earlier.