Epidemic. That’s a good word to describe Florida when it comes to sexual crimes perpetrated on inmates behind bars. And although we’ve been concentrating on Jacksonville’s jail, the statewide prison system is perhaps more dangerous for inmates It has, for example, the dubious distinction of tying with Texas for having the most prisons with high
By the time Marichuy Leal Gamino reached a port of entry into the United States, she had already been stabbed in the stomach and legs in what she says was a transphobic attack that occurred along the U.S. border with Mexico near Arizona. But unlike an estimated 80 percent of migrant women entering the U.S.
HARTFORD (AP) — The number of substantiated cases of sexual abuse inside Connecticut’s prisons and halfway houses rose from two in 2013 to 14 last year — and state officials and victims’ advocates say that’s actually a good thing. The increase in cases is more likely the result of better reporting and increased investigation instead
The Prison Rape Elimination Act is making its way into state prisons, but what about all those county jails? On Monday, The Trentonian, the paper of record for New Jersey’s capital city, published the kind of item that is increasingly popping up in local newspapers around the country: a story about a sexual abuse
A 5-year turnaround is cited as a model of prevention. Inmate rape has long been a plague of jails and prisons, but Miami’s jailers didn’t think they had a real problem. That changed abruptly in 2010, when a federal report listed one of the city’s five jails, the Pretrial Detention Center, as one of the