More fed foot-dragging: Obama AG Holder sits on proposals to reduce sexual abuse

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More fed foot-dragging: Obama AG Holder sits on proposals to reduce sexual abuse and rape in prison
Pam's House Blend
by:  Pam Spaulding
Fri Aug 27, 2010 at 09:30:00 AM EDT


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17180/more-fed-footdragging-obama-ag-holder-sits-on-proposals-to-reduce-sexual-abuse-and-rape-in-prison


Yesterday a study  was released by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) that estimates that at least 88,500 adults held in U.S. prisons and jails were sexually abused at their current facility in the past year.

What is astonishing is that the Obama DOJ has been studying and reviewing proposals to reduce sexual violence in detention by establishing national standards for staff sexual misconduct for 14 months. Nothing has been finalized and each day more inmates are being raped, harassed and abused while Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't act, defying a congressional deadline set national standards to reduce this criminal activity. Look at what is going on (via Just Detention International):