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A Failure to Act

By Michael Blankenship

"THIS IS SOMETHING that I think needs to be done, not tomorrow, but yesterday." Those were the words of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in March to a House subcommittee on the subject of preventing sexual abuse in prison. Five months have passed since then, and two have passed since the June 23 deadline for Mr. Holder to approve the guidelines set forth by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. His "yesterday" is long past. Read more... The bureau estimates that at least 88,500 adults were sexually abused in U.S. prisons and jails in the past year. This number represents 4.4 percent of prison inmates and 3.1 percent of those in jail but fails to include assaults on minors, which a January survey suggested was more than 12 percent -- one in eight...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).