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U.S. Department of Justice Releases Former Prisoner Report on Sexual Victimization
Loaded on Oct. 4, 2014
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Crime/Demographics,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Former Prisoner Report on Sexual Victimization
by Matt Clarke
On May 12, 2012, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report on a survey of former state prisoners about sexual victimization in …
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