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Friday, May 18, 2012

Justice: Prisons To Step Up Anti-Rape Efforts

The Obama administration ordered federal, state and local officials Thursday to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape as it issued mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations designed to reduce the number of inmates who suffer sexual victimization at the hands of other prisoners and prison staff.

Anti-rape advocates and victims of prison rape, while saying the standards are not perfect, cheered the new regulations. The rules have been under development since Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003 to fight rape and sexual victimization in the nation’s prisons, jails and halfway houses. The regulations were announced only minutes after the Justice Department unveiled a new survey of former state and local prisoners that showed that almost one in every 10 reported at least one incident of sexual victimization by prison staff or other inmates.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And if you commit a prison rape in this here place, you're going to JAIL, Buster!

Anonymous said...

The Obama regime is just in CYA mode.
Pun intended.
They know there is a good chance they will be doing time when its all over with.

Anonymous said...

Wow, something Bush did that Obama ISN'T crying about...

Still just a band-aid really. There is a zero tolerance standard for prison rape already in place... Nice try though!

Anonymous said...

The Obama regime is just in CYA mode.
Pun intended.
They know there is a good chance they will be doing time when its all over with.

May 18, 2012 3:16 PM

The word obama is highlighted and underlined in this one too. Ad for walmart gift card.