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Sexual Victimization in Prison Statistically Analyzed
Loaded on April 15, 2007
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2007, page 28
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Discrimination,
Racial Discrimination,
Reviews,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
New York.
The New York Academy of Medicine published a study in June 2006 on rates of sexual victimization of state prisoners. Contrasted with earlier studies that only used small population samples, this study covered all adult prisoners (22,231) in one state, encompassing its twelve male prisons and ...
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