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Despite the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003, support for prisoner rights – particularly regarding sexual abuse of transgender inmates – and attempts to reform the system have slowed, reports The New York Times.
From the story:
It took almost a decade for the Justice Department to issue the final standards on how to prevent, detect and respond to sexual abuse in custody. And it took a couple of years more before governors were required to report to Washington...
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