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| New York prison escape puts staff-inmate relationships in the spotlight |
| By fox6now.com |
| Published: 06/15/2015 |
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NEW YORK — The charges against a prison tailor accused of helping two convicted murders escape from a maximum security facility in upstate New York have cast a spotlight on relationships between inmates and correctional staff. The nature of Joyce Mitchell’s ties to Richard Matt and David Sweat, the two murderers who are still on the lam, remains unclear. But hundreds of consensual relationships between guards and inmates are documented each year in U.S. prisons, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. More than half of all substantiated incidents of staff sexual misconduct in U.S. prisons and jails were committed by female members of staff, according to a study by the bureau released last year. Read More. |
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