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Evangelicals Call For Prison-Rape Reforms

Religion News Service | By Ankita Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Ankita Rao Religion News Service (RNS) Evangelicals are calling on the Obama administration to enact long-promised prison reforms, saying the inca...

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Behind the Prison RIot in California

Pat Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pat Nolan

The skills the inmates develop to survive violent prisons make them dangerous when they are released. You can't cage men like animals and then expect them to be model citizens when they return home.

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Getting Serious About Prison Rape

Pat Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Prison rape has long been a staple of jokes on late night TV, but otherwise it has been ignored as an unseemly but intractable problem of our prisons.

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Prison Rape Could Cost States Money

AP | JENNIFER C. KERR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — New measures aimed at reducing prison rapes are in the works _ and states that fail to take steps to protect their inmates could se...

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60,000 Inmates Sexually Abused Every Year

AP | JENNIFER C. KERR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — New measures aimed at reducing prison rapes are in the works _ and states that fail to take steps to protect their inmates could se...

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