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Sexual Abuse and Violence in Texas Prisons Eclipses National Average
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2008
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2008, page 33
Citing figures issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) a preliminary report by the Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) initiative shows that Texas has five of the nation’s ten worst prisons for reported sexual violence. [SPR has changed its name and is now known as Just Detention International.] During the ...
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Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Crime/Demographics,
Crime,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
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