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Man’s AIDS-Related Death After Prison Rape Highlights a National Crisis

Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Bryson Martel Spruce, Prison Rape

Last month the Bureau of Justice Statistics confirmed that rapes and sexual assault of U.S. prison inmates have reached epidemic proportions. The data states that nearly one in 10 prisoners report having been raped or sexually assaulted by other inmates, staff, or both. In 2003, Congress created a separate report by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, which challenges to take the issue seriously, ...

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