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Nine Months Later, DOJ Still Hasn’t Provided Senator Rubio With Answers About Rampant Sexual Abuse at Women’s Prisons
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2020
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2020, page 44
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General),
Violence Against Women Act.
by Douglas Ankney
On December 3, 2019, fourteen prisoners filed suit alleging repeated rapes and other sexual abuse at two federal prisons for women in Florida. Senator Marco Rubio demanded that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) investigate the allegations. Nine months later, Rubio again wrote Attorney General William Barr, complaining ...
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