The Bureau of Justice has released a special report on sexual victimization in juvenile facilities. When many people think prisons or correctional facilities and inmates being sexually victimized they think of inmates being the main cause as well as males being the ones doing so. Two key points from the report are these:
That the majority of sexual victimization reported by youth in juvenile facilities is done not by other youth but by staff members.
Approximately 95% of all youth reporting staff sexual misconduct said they had been victimized by female staff. In 2008, 42% of staff in state juvenile facilities were female.
For many people this may be hard to believe. And remember this is talking about juvenile facilities not adult facilities. You can read the entire report here.
Friday, January 29, 2010
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