It was a secret that Jason, a Mississippi state inmate, couldn’t keep locked up in his mind any longer. “I was in protective custody, and he was a general population inmate. He told me he was going to get me,” the inmate documented in written testimony, viewed by Fox News. “I came out of my cell for a shower
“Now while there are many organisations providing counselling to survivors of rape. The impact of any form of sexual abuse has long term effects on individuals who suffer at the hands of their perpetrators. With some left with no option escaping, such as rape survivors, assaulted in detention who are forced to see, or even
“The federal government has guidelines in place for how transgender inmates should be treated in America’s jails and prisons. But a recent Philadelphia case shows those rules aren’t always being followed, specifically at Riverside Correctional Facility, the city’s only female jail. Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Pranshu Verma explains why.” Listen to the podcast here.
A new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS] released Wednesday says the number of youths who report they have been sexually abused in juvenile detention facilities have decreased. But a notably high rate of sexual assaults still occur in facilities, specifically in 12 facilities stretching from Oregon to Florida. Comprised of data compiled from
A juvenile detention center in Arkansas has one of the highest rates of sexual abuse of any teen lockup in a nationwide survey — a distinction it also held the last time the same survey was conducted six years ago. The Arkansas Juvenile Assessment and Treatment Center, a 100-bed detention facility located near Alexander, had