Yaritza Colon, a former feminine inmate, is suing the state of New York for $20 million, alleging state jail officers failed to guard her from Pedro Norde, a correction officer she says compelled her to carry out sexual favors behind bars. “Sometimes I couldn’t even come out of my cell until I flashed him my breasts,” Colon stated, recalling her time within the Taconic Correctional Facility again in 2018. One other plaintiff, who requested to not be named due to the graphic nature of her allegations, stated Norde raped her on three events late at evening in 2007 and 2008,…
