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Delaware Law: Punishing Prisoners for Reporting Sexual Abuse by Guards
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2006
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2006, page 17
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
News,
State Legislation.
Location:
Delaware.
by David M. Reutter
In July 1980, the state of Delaware criminalized all sex in its prisons. Critics cry that the law requires a prisoner to be convicted even when the sex is non-consensual, preventing prisoners from reporting sexual abuse by guards.
Delawares law prohibits sexual intercourse and deviate sexual ...
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