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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”