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| County seeks to protect inmates |
| By The Columbian |
| Published: 10/10/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - Helping inmates avoid victimization and streamlining the method for reporting misconduct have emerged as solutions to reducing sexual abuse at the Clark County Jail. Those progress notes were in a report issued Thursday by a task force established by Sheriff Garry Lucas. Lucas appointed nine department employees to address the situation after a June study by the U.S. Department of Justice found that Clark County inmates reported the second-highest rate of sexual abuse in the nation among those surveyed. More than 40,000 inmates were surveyed last year at 282 jails. The work was done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, according to guidelines set by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, to get a clearer picture of the problem. According to the study, the national average of inmates reporting abuse was 3.2 percent. In Clark County, where 163 inmates were surveyed, 9.1 percent reported some type of abuse. |
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