20 Percent U.S. Prisoners Raped
on the First Day of Incarceration
If you call America the land of liberty, just rethink about it.20% prisoners are raped on their first day in the American Prison System.
Let me repeat it:
One in five are raped on their very first day of incarceration. A BIG SHAME!
And that doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story of prison rape.
For example, contrary to popular belief, more prisoners reported sexual
assaults involving prison staff (2.8 percent) than other inmates (2.1 percent).
And women are more likely to be victimized than men.
Theses are only some of the findings of a newly released study by the
Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) which reports that
88,500 adults held in U.S. prisons and jails are sexually abused each year.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder has already missed a deadline of
June, 2010 to institute reforms mandated by a bipartisan commission created
by the passage of the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, reforms that could help
prevent these nearly 88,500 individual tragedies from continuing unabated.
“Every day that the Attorney General doesn’t finalize the national standards is
another day of anguish among prisoner rape survivors, of preventable safety
breaches in prisons, and of significant spending of taxpayers’ money on medical
treatment, investigations, and litigation that could have been avoided,” says
Lovisa Stannow, Executive Director of Just Detention International.
And if that's not enough, read the bit below:
A youth survey, released in January , found that the abuse in juvenile facilities is
even worse, with 12 percent of detainees reporting sexual assaults in various US jails.
I can only say this is simply unacceptable in the 21st century and ask where
all those champions of individual freedom and universal justice are...
20 Percent U.S. Prisoners Raped
on the First Day of Incarceration
20% prisoners are raped on their first day in the American Prison System.
Let me repeat it:
One in five are raped on their very first day of incarceration. A BIG SHAME!
And that doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story of prison rape.
For example, contrary to popular belief, more prisoners reported sexual
assaults involving prison staff (2.8 percent) than other inmates (2.1 percent).
And women are more likely to be victimized than men.
Theses are only some of the findings of a newly released study by the
Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) which reports that
88,500 adults held in U.S. prisons and jails are sexually abused each year.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder has already missed a deadline of
June, 2010 to institute reforms mandated by a bipartisan commission created
by the passage of the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, reforms that could help
prevent these nearly 88,500 individual tragedies from continuing unabated.
“Every day that the Attorney General doesn’t finalize the national standards is
another day of anguish among prisoner rape survivors, of preventable safety
breaches in prisons, and of significant spending of taxpayers’ money on medical
treatment, investigations, and litigation that could have been avoided,” says
Lovisa Stannow, Executive Director of Just Detention International.
And if that's not enough, read the bit below:
A youth survey, released in January , found that the abuse in juvenile facilities is
even worse, with 12 percent of detainees reporting sexual assaults in various US jails.
I can only say this is simply unacceptable in the 21st century and ask where
all those champions of individual freedom and universal justice are...
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