Each Day, More Victims

Sexual abuse behind bars in this country is rampant. Today, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) issued a report finding that a staggering 64,500 people in federal and state prisons reported being raped or sexually abused in the last year. The report further found that an additional 24,000 jail detainees were sexually abused during that same period. And in juvenile facilities, the problem is even worse: according to a recent government study, almost 15 percent of youth reported being sexually abused in the preceding year.