Stories From the Inside: Prisoner Rape and the War on Drugs
"Stories from the Inside: Prisoner Rape and the War on Drugs," Stop Prisoner Rape (2007), 55.
Non-violent drug offenders are swelling the prison population beyond capacity, causing crowding and mixing violent predators with vulnerable prisoners unprepared to protect themselves from prison rape. Illustrated with personal stories of violence and rape, this report discusses and suggest remedies for the inequities in sentencing, excessive public costs, and deleterious effects on inmates of drug sentencing in the U.S.
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http://www.spr.org/pdf/StoriesFromInside032207.pdf
