Half of U.S. Prison Sex Crimes Involve Staff Toward Inmates
February 19th, 2014Even as I read the first sentence, I thought, “This number is probably off by an order of magnitude.”
Well, keep reading down the article…
Via: Reuters:
Nearly 9,000 incidents of sexual victimization against inmates in U.S. prisons and jails were reported in 2011, with roughly half of them involving corrections staff, according to a report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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About half of all the allegations involved staff directed toward inmates, it said, and half involved inmates with other inmates.
Another study released in May by the bureau showed some 80,000 victim allegations among inmates, said Allan Beck, a BJS statistician and an author of the report.
“Of course we find much higher rates of sexual victimization through inmates’ self-reports than what comes through in the official records,” he said.
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