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Editorial: Sentenced to Abuse

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial: Sentenced to Abuse Published: January 14, 2010 NY Times The Justice Department needs to act swiftly and decisively to protect young people who are being battered and raped in juvenile corrections facilities all across the country. A shocking new study by the Justice Department?s Bureau of Justice Statistics surveyed more than 9,000 young people in custody and found that 12 percent reported being sexually abused one or more times, mainly by staff members. Particularly alarming, the study found several juvenile facilities where 30 percent or more of the young people reported being raped. Some of the institutions with high rates of victimization were in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas. These latest findings are consistent with those reported in June by a federal commission created by Congress under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).