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Federal panel issues prison rape prevention recommendations

In reaction to the passage by Congress in 2003 of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the Department of Justice in recent years has focused greater attention on documenting, preventing, and encouraging prosecutions of prison rape, gathering data on the problem comprehensively for the first time and setting up a review panel to recommend ways to prevent it. (See transcripts and testimony from their initial hearings.)Reacting to their recommendations issued on Friday, the Houston Chronicle ("Report advises how to prevent rapes in prison," Aug. 22) reminds us that Texas has one of the worst documented problems with prison rape of any state:Last year, an arm of the Department of Justice ? the Bureau of Justice Statistics ? made its first attempt at complying with the law by conducting a survey of randomly selected inmates at a limited number of facilities...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).