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DOJ Releases Report on Staff Sexual Abuse of Federal Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 2010
by Justin Miller
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2010, page 36
A report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Justice concerning sexual abuse of federal prisoners by prison staff found that such claims were widespread and had more than doubled during the eight-year span reviewed by the report. The OIG called the Bureau of ...
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Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
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