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Major report on combatting prison rape finally released

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Washington Post article, a long awaited report from the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission has finally been released: Nearly six years after President George W. Bush signed legislation to reduce prison rape, a blue-ribbon commission is calling on corrections officers to identify vulnerable inmates, offer better medical care and allow stricter monitoring of their facilities. The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, in a study to be released today, affirms that more than 7.3 million people in prisons, jails and halfway houses across the nation have "fundamental rights to safety, dignity and justice." The number of rapes committed by detention staff members and other inmates remains a subject of intense scrutiny...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).