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| Arizona misses deadline on curbing prison rapes, federal funds at risk |
| By ktar.com- Ryan Howes |
| Published: 06/02/2014 |
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WASHINGTON -- Arizona failed to meet a May 15 deadline for national standards aimed at reducing sexual assaults in its prisons, and will lose some federal funding for Department of Justice programs in the state as a result. Arizona was one of seven states and one territory that missed the compliance deadline for the Prison Rape Elimination Act that set "national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction and punishment of prison rape." Passed in 2003, states had until this year to comply. Justice Department officials said this week that those states that did not meet the deadline will lose 5 percent of departmental grants. State and federal officials were not able to provide an estimate this week of how much the withholding might cost Arizona. Read More. |
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