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New York Times editorial urges "tough as possible" prison rape policies

By Douglas A. Berman

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This morning's New York Times includes this editorial headlined "Make Prisons Safer," which gets started this way: 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 makes that clear, suggesting yet again that sexual violence is frighteningly commonplace in the nation?s prisons and jails.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).

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