Baltimore has high rate of staff inmate sex





Almost 7 percent of inmates reported sexual contact with staff in DOJ
survey





http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-prison-sexual-abuse-20130516,0,2442075.story



http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4654

Protect Pregnant Women: Free Bei Bei Shuai

The Nation March 7, 2012

http://www.thenation.com/print/article/166664/protect-pregnant-women-free-bei-bei-shuai

On March 14, Bei Bei Shuai will have spent one full year in jail in Marion County, Indiana. Her crime? The prosecutor calls it attempted feticide and murder. What it really is: attempting suicide while pregnant.

Jury gives $975K to woman who gave birth alone on floor in jail cell

A federal court jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a severely mentally ill homeless woman who gave birth alone in a King County Jail cell 14 years ago.

Seattle Times 3 Feb 2012

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017419232_inmatebaby04m.html

Discipline problems persist at Harris County Jail

Houston Chronicle 29 Jan 2012

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Discipline-problems-persist-at-Harris-County-Jail-2795005.php

THANKS TO GRITS FOR BREAKFAST

A female jailer ordered, without authorization, an entire cellblock of women prisoners to strip naked during a July 2010 search. She's still on the job. Another jailer punched a seriously ill inmate as he lay in the infirmary in May 2010. The inmate died the next day, and the jailer's punishment: one day in jail.

Last year, a sergeant slugged an inmate so hard it took 14 staples to close a gash over his eye. The sergeant said the inmate raised his hands to hit him, but other jailers swore the inmate didn't. The sergeant was fired but not charged with a crime. He's fighting to return. These incidents and dozens of others highlight how the Harris County Jail, one of the busiest in the nation, continues to experience problems similar to those cited in a 2009 U.S. Department of Justice report critical of the use of excessive force against inmates.

DEATH PENALTY FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS

JANUARY 1, 1973, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2011

By Victor Streib

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/studiesdeath-penalty-female-offenders

http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FemDeathDec2011.pdf

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