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Report Finds Texas Prison Staff Often Ignore Reports of Prison Rape
Loaded on Dec. 19, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
by Matthew Clarke
In November 2016, the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and the Prison Justice League (PJL) published a report on sexual assaults in Texas prisons. The report concluded that Texas has failed to stem sexual violence within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) with sexual assault rates ...
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