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| Prison assualts lowest in Utah |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/01/2006 |
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT - While a federal study found that sexual assaults in state and federal prisons rose 16 percent nationally last year, a Utah Corrections spokesman said such incidents have decreased in Utah's prison system. Utah's prison system reported 14 allegations of inmate-on-inmate sexual violence. Of those, three were deemed substantiated. There were also five allegations of staff-related misconduct, of which none was substantiated. Corrections spokesman Jack Ford said incidents of misconduct have dropped since the Legislature made it a felony for guards to have sexual relations with inmates. "We do training on the new law involving sexual harassment and sexual misconduct with inmates," Ford said. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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