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GAO Recommends Changes in ICE Collection of Sex Abuse Data
Loaded on Jan. 6, 2016
by Derek Gilna
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Statistics/Trends,
Disclosure of Records,
Immigration.
Location:
United States of America.
A new General Accounting Office (GAO) Report has called into question the Completeness of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) collection of data regarding sexual abuse and assault incidents in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. GAO reviewed data in facilities that had in excess of 1.2 …
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