Item #576
According to inmates, roughly 1/3 coerced into participation in inmate-on-inmate sex
Topic: Violence, Sexual
Source
Citation: No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons
Author(s): Mariner
Institution(s): Human Rights Watch
Link: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report1.html#_1_5
Nation(s): United States
Year(s): 1996-1999
Source: Primary
Type: Survey
Discussion
Other Notes:
According to line officers, 1/5; according to higher-ranking officials, 1/8
Objections/Rebuttals:
“The author of the survey was careful to note that it was not conducted in accordance with scientific standards, and thus its findings may not be perfectly reliable”
Counter-Objections/-Rebuttals:
“Even taking only the lowest of the three estimates of coerced sexual activity — and even framing that one conservatively — more than one in ten inmates in the prisons surveyed was subject to sexual abuse”
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