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The News (Pakistan) More than 50 per cent of all women in American prisons have been sexually abused

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

More than 50 per cent of all women in American prisons have been sexually abused Monday, August 11, 2008 By Kaleem Omar, The News (Pakistan) The United States government never tires of lecturing countries around the world on their human rights record, which is what President George W. Bush chose to do in the case of China en route to Beijing on August 8 to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Yet the US government often turns a blind eye to gross human rights violations in its own country. A case in point is the government?s apathy towards the sexual abuse of women in US prisons, which has been rampant for years. According to current estimates, more than 50 per cent of all female prisoners in the United States have experienced some form of sexual abuse...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 10, 2008 (boomark / email).