Nationally, 4 Percent of Inmates Report Being Sexually Assaulted

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A federal study released Thursday, Aug. 26, estimated that more than 88,000 inmates -- 64,000 in prisons and 24,000 in jails -- told researchers they were sexually assaulted by staff or other inmates in the previous 12 months. That's 4.4 percent of prison inmates and 3.1 percent of jail inmates.

Of the five Ohio prisons surveyed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, three prisons exceeded the national average: Lebanon Correctional Institution (5.6 percent), the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville (7.7) and Southeastern Correctional Institution at Lancaster (5.3). Mansfield Correctional Institution had the national average of 4.4 percent, and the Correctional Reception Center, a short-time facility for inmates headed to other prisons, had 1.1 percent reporting sexual victimization.

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Nationally, 4 Percent of Inmates Report Being Sexually Assaulted

At the Montgomery County Jail, 1.4 percent of inmates told researchers they were abused by ...

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