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(Aug. 27) -- A new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that sexual violence in prison is rampant. During the year prior to when the BJS took its survey, it found that 64,500 inmates in state and federal prison had been abused, as had another 24,000 in county jails.
According to The New York Review of Books, this number is actually higher, since the survey didn't include juvenile institutions or account for prisoners with shorter terms who had been released before the survey. "Overall, we can confidently say that well over 100,000 people are sexually abused in American detention facilities every year," the magazine writes.
In 2003, Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act and convened an expert panel to devise standards for preventing and punishing prison sexual abuse. But implementation has been held up because according the act, in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's words, the rules must not "impose substantial additional costs compared to the costs presently expended by federal, state and local prison authorities."
But it's been seven years, and The New York Review of Books accuses Holder of dragging his feet while 300 prisoners are being sexually abused every day.
Read more at The New York Review of Books.
Why Is Attorney General Eric Holder Dragging His Feet on Prison Rape?
Aug 27, 2010 – 8:47 AM
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