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Bureau of Justice Publishes Report on Sexual Misconduct at Juvenile Facilities
Loaded on July 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2009, page 34
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the prevalence of sexual misconduct and violence at juvenile residential facilities. The report, entitled Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities 2005-06, is in accordance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA). The PREA requires the BJS to …
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Reviews,
Criminal Prosecution,
Statistics/Trends,
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
United States of America.
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