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Female guards biggest source of inmate sex abuse allegations

One excellent result from the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) is that we're getting for the first time a more accurate picture of sexual assault behind bars that in many ways defies the usual stereotypes. A Houston Chronicle editorial this morning ("Stopping prison rape," April 9) remarks on the results of a study authorized PREA which showed several Texas prisons led the nation in alleged sexual assaults on inmates:Even by the standards of the Texas justice system, the number of rapes committed in our prisons is astounding. And it's even more appalling that most of the rapists are corrections officers ? the very people charged with enforcing our laws. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that of the 10 U.S. prisons with the highest rates of sexual abuse, five are in Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).