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| CA Officials Fighting Prison Sex Abuse Allegations |
| By californiawatch.org |
| Published: 09/15/2010 |
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State prison officials are disputing findings from a new federal study that identified two California prisons as having some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the nation. The Bureau of Justice Statistics ranked two California adult men’s prisons among six others nationwide as “high rate” facilities based on the prevalence of “inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization.” The report gave the California Medical Facility a prevalence rate of 5.8 percent and Pleasant Valley State Prison a rate of 5.5 percent. The national rate for adult male inmates is 1.9 percent. The Pleasant Valley facility had 5,097 inmates at the time of the survey, and the California Medical Facility had 3,067 inmates. Read More. |
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