Rape and sexual abuse in detention is epidemic across America — underscores need for binding national standards WASHINGTON, D.C., August 25, 2010 — Tomorrow, the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) will release a report of its most recent nationwide survey of sexual victimization among prison and jail inmates. While this is vitally
Bureau of Justice Statistics study confirms epidemic of sexual abuse in detention — underscores need for binding national standards WASHINGTON, D.C., August 26, 2010 — A study released today by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) estimates that at least 88,500 adults held in U.S. prisons and jails were sexually abused at
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 27, 2010 — The Department of Justice has squandered an opportunity to address the rampant sexual abuse of detained youth, choosing instead to minimize this crisis. In the executive summary of its new “Report on Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities,” the Department’s Review Panel on Prison Rape claims that a recent
In an en banc opinion released yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the search of a male jail inmate by a female cadet, who touched his thighs, buttocks, and genital areas while other officers watched, amounted to an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Just Detention International
In a decision released today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling that officials who retaliated against a prisoner when she reported being raped by a prison staff member were immune from litigation. Speaking for the Court in Ortiz v. Jordan, Justice Ginsberg highlighted pre-existing law establishing that officials can be held liable