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The perpetrators of violent attacks are convicted criminals, some of whom are in prison for committing crimes that have left multiple people severely injured or dead. As such, many of these individuals are accustomed to using violence. Inmates may settle disputes and seek power by physically harming or threatening other inmates. [1]
Prisoners are sometimes intentionally housed with inmates known to have raped other prisoners, or protection from known rapists may be purposely withheld from the prisoners. These practices create a very high incidence of rape in US prisons, which was the topic of the 2001 report No Escape from Human Rights Watch. [2] [3]
From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]
Sarah "Cindy" White, the longest serving female prisoner in Indiana is interviewed about sexual abuse she claims led to her crime, at the Indiana Women's Prison on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, in ...
In some European countries such as France, Belgium and Norway, the suicide rate among prisoners is ten times as high as among the general population, [2] but it is unknown whether this is because of the prison environment or because persons with marked suicidal tendencies are more liable to be imprisoned for crime. The apparent motivations for ...
For the 2022-23 school year, the youngest student arrested on school grounds in Indiana was 8 years old.. A total of 156 children, aged 12 and under, were arrested at schools that year. On the ...
A 2017 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics noted that 54.3% of prisoners and 35% of jail inmates who had experienced serious psychological distress in the past 30 days have received mental health treatment since admission to the current facility, and 63% of prisoners and 44.5% of jail inmates with a history of a mental health problem ...
It’s the second lawsuit that has followed the October 2021 incident that led to a guard at the Indiana jail being criminally charged. ‘Night of terror’: Female inmates raped when male ...