And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: "Day Starr (*No-qui-si*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > INTERNATIONAL > The News > M�xico City, April 12, 1999. > > HIGH ABUSE RATE FOR JAILED WOMEN > Reuters > > WASHINGTON -- Nearly half of all women in the nation's prisons and jails said > they had been physically or sexually abused before their arrests, the U.S. > Justice Department reported on Sunday. > > The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said in a report that 33 > percent of the women in state prisons, 25 percent in local jails and 20 > percent in federal prisons told interviewers they had been raped before their > incarceration. > > The report showed female inmates reported higher levels of abuse as children > than women in the general population. > > More than 33 percent of the inmates said they had been abused as children, > compared with estimates of 12 to 17 percent of the women in the general > population. > > About 14 percent of the male inmates reported physical or sexual abuse as a > child, a higher rate than the 5 to 8 percent for men in the general > population, according to the report. > > Convicted criminals often cite physical or sexual abuse as a factor that a > judge should take into account in sentencing. > > Following were among the report's other findings:-- More than half the female > inmates who reported abuse said they were abused by spouses or boyfriends and > less than a third by parents or guardians. More than half the men who > reported abuse said it was at the hands of their parents or guardians. > > -- Forty-four percent of the male prisoners and 87 percent of the female > prisoners who spent most of their childhood in foster care or institutions > reported abuse. Many of them may have been removed from abusive homes. > > -- About 15 percent of male inmates and 55 percent of female inmates raised > by one or both parents reported abuse. The abuse rates went up if the parents > drank heavily or used drugs regularly. -- Back To The Blanket Journal: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BackToTheBlanket Heroine Mu Gui-Ying http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7111 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
