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Why Is Attorney General Eric Holder Dragging His Feet on Prison Rape?

By Paul WachterAug 27th 2010 – 8:47AM

(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,...

Background on prison rape

Prison rape refers to rape occurring in prison. It has come into common usage to refer to rape of inmates by other inmates, and less commonly to the rape of inmates by staff, or the rape of staff by inmates.

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