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Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2006, page 23
In the wake of a huge scandal involving several high ranking, veteran prison officials engaging in sexual activity with female prisoners of the Coffee Creek Correctional Institution, Oregon has enacted legislation criminalizing custodial sexual misconduct.
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Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Administrative Exhaustion,
News,
State Legislation.
Location:
Oregon.
The law, which became effective July 13, 2005, creates the offenses of Custodial Sexual Misconduct ...
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