Formerly incarcerated people who say they were sexually assaulted in New York prisons and jails held a rally for justice with their attorneys and supporters on Wednesday in front of the New York County Courthouse in lower Manhattan.

Tasha Beasley, who was imprisoned in Rikers Island, New York City’s largest prison located in the Bronx, in the 1990s, said no one would listen to her when she told officials she was assaulted by a correction officer while she was in custody.

“When I was raped, I didn’t have a microphone in front of me,” Beasley said at the rally. “This is why this microphone sounds so good to me because it’s my voice, now, that is being amplified.”

The rally, which organizers say included 400 participants, commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which allowed alleged sexual assault victims in New York to file for civil damages from Nov. 24, 2022, to Nov. 24, 2023, regardless of the statute of limitations.