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Stop Prison Rape HOUSTON Narrate April 8, 2010
Even by the standards of the penalty system in Texas, the slew of rape in our prisons is staggering. And it's even more appalling that most rapists are correctional officers - the very people responsible for enforcing our laws.
The Chifferobe Statistics indicates that the fairness of Prisons U.S. 10 with the highest rates of injuries assail, five are in Texas. Element Estelle, Huntsville, is No. 1 on this liber veritatis lamentable.
Nationwide, 4.5 per cent of prisoners expedition they were victims of sexual assaults over the past 12 months. At the element of Estelle is 15.7 percent. Assuming that Estelle is still in the vicinity of her condition, which means roughly 470 people are raped each year, many of these victims were repeatedly raped.
The other four Texas prisons on the catalog raisonne - the element Clements in Amarillo, the Constituent Allred near Wichita Falls, Mount Hold Point selfish Gatesville, and the nearby settlement Coffield Element Tennessee - had a rate between 9.3 percent and 13.9 per cent....
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