Fed Guidelines Won't End Prison Rape

The level of sexual abuse behind prison bars is a national scandal. Unfortunately, the federal guidelines proposed to deal with the problem don't go far enough. Almost eight years after Congress unanimously approved the first-ever federal law to crack down on prison rape and nine months after the …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Thursday March 24, 2011

Prison Rape: Not Inevitable

If U.S. prisons adopted better security standards we could halve the number of sexually abused inmates. Why then aren't these standards being adopted? Some US prisons do a much better job than others of protecting inmates from sexual abuse. In the current New York Review of Books ,  David …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 8, 2011