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Indiana prison violence grows
By indystar.com
Published: 10/26/2009

Indiana's prisons are experiencing a surge in inmate assaults and attacks on staff -- increases the state prison chief blames largely on overcrowding caused by inadequate funding for new beds.

The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne reports that in the first half of 2009, Indiana's prisons had 514 inmate-on-inmate attacks, 62 of which caused serious injuries. That compares with 719 such attacks, 101 of them with serious injuries, during all of 2008.

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