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A Devastating Link: Prisoner Rape and the War on Drugs

Loaded on May 15, 2007 published in Prison Legal News May, 2007, page 38
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Crime. Location: United States of America.
by Lovisa Stannow and Kathy Hall-Martinez

The enormous financial and moral costs of the ?war on drugs? have been well-documented over the past few years. Less known is the devastating link between U.S. drug policy and the epidemic of prisoner rape.

With laws requiring longer sentences for drug offenses and …

 

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