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| CA Attacks Prison Sex Abuse |
| By dailynews.com |
| Published: 10/13/2010 |
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AFTER being transferred to California's Pleasant Valley State Prison, Jason hoped that officials would help protect him. He had been raped at his previous facility and knew he was likely to be targeted again. Instead, prison staff ignored his pleas and placed him in a cell with a known rapist. Jason was assaulted again and again. In the face of staff indifference and threats of retaliation, he endured rapes for six months before deliberately attacking another inmate to get himself sent to solitary confinement. Jason's story is far from unique. Based on surveys conducted in prisons and jails across the country, the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that 88,500 inmates had been sexually abused at their current facility in the preceding year. The BJS report, released Aug. 26, identifies Pleasant Valley in Coalinga as one of the prisons with the highest rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual abuse in the country. Another state prison, the California Medical Facility, also earned this dubious distinction. Both had rates that were more than double the national average. Read More. |
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