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NY Times Editorial: Making Prisons Safer

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NY Times Editorial: Making Prisons Safer September 9, 2010 Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has spent nearly 15 months weighing new mandatory rape prevention policies for federal prisons and state correctional institutions that receive federal money. The policies, which are due this fall, need to be as tough as possible. A recent report from the Justice Department?s Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri0809.pdf) makes that clear, suggesting yet again that sexual violence is frighteningly commonplace in the nation?s prisons and jails. Based on a survey of more than 80,000 inmates at more than 450 facilities, it found that 4.4 percent of prison inmates and 3.1 percent of jail inmates reported being sexually assaulted one or more times...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).