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Rape of Women Prisoners Rampant in Ohio
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2004
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2004, page 22
The sexual assault of female pris-oners at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) in Marysville, Ohio, is shockingly commonplace, according to a report by Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) released on December 10, 2003. The 15-page report, titled The Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Ohio, details an environment in which …
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Reviews,
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Whistleblowing.
Location:
Ohio.
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