Sexual Abuse of Women in US Prisons

clipped from www.thenews.com.pk If a woman is sexually abused, she cannot escape from her abuser. According to current estimates, at least half of all female prisoners have experienced some form of sexual abuse prior to incarceration. Many women are incarcerated in the 170 state prison facilities for women across the United States and, more often than not, they are guarded by men. male officers have not only used actual or threatened physical force, but have also used their near total authority to provide or deny goods and privileges to female prisoners to compel them to have sex or, in other cases, to reward them for having done so. engaged in regular verbal degradation and harassment of female prisoners women have been impregnated as a result of sexual misconduct passage of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964, US employers have been prohibited from denying a person a job solely on the basis of gender allows male correctional employees to hold contact positions over prisoners

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