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Bureau of Justice Report on Sexual Violence in Juvenile Prisons
Loaded on April 15, 2009
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2009, page 36
Since the Prison Rape Elimination Act was implemented in 2003 the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has accumulated statistical data on sexual activity in juvenile prisons in the U.S. A report issued in July 2008, by the DOJ, compiled information in the areas of youth-on-youth sexual violence and staff-on-youth sexual ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Crime/Demographics,
Statistics/Trends,
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
United States of America.
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