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Ninth Circuit: Congress Can Criminalize Federal Sex Crimes Committed in State Facilities
Loaded on Oct. 3, 2016
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2016, page 38
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Harassment,
Sentencing,
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Location:
Alaska.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in August 2015 that Congress is authorized to criminalize sexual assaults in facilities where federal prisoners are held by agreement with state and local governments.
On March 5, 2009, Sabil Mumin Mujahid drove to Anchorage, Alaska’s Nesbett Courthouse for a bail hearing on ...
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