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Congress Amends PLRA Physical Injury Requirement for Sexual Abuse Cases

Loaded on July 15, 2013 by John Boston published in Prison Legal News July, 2013, page 30
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Physical Injury Rule, Federal Statutory Law, Violence Against Women Act. Location: United States of America.
The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was renewed and broadened in February 2013, after much controversy involving Republican opposition to provisions extending certain of the statute's protections to LGBT persons, Native Americans living on reservations and undocumented immigrants.

Lost in those debates was the fact that the broadened VAWA …

 

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