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DOJ forums in Houston focus on prison rape

By Gritsforbreakfast

A guest column in today's Houston Chronicle informs us of hearings today and tomorrow in Houston focusing on prison rape ("For the sake of all Texans, stop rape in our prisons," March 27): According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice runs five of the 10 prisons with the highest rates of sexual victimization in the country. Today and Friday in Houston, the U.S. Department of Justice Review Panel on Prison Rape is holding public hearings to examine the policies and practices at these five prisons. The hearing provides a unique opportunity for policy-makers, and all Texans, to seek solutions to the systemic problems that have placed the TDCJ so firmly among the nation's most troubled prison systems. The BJS prison ranking was based on the first-ever nationwide inmate survey, in which prisoners across the country were asked whether they had experienced sexual abuse at their current facility in the past 12 months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).