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Saturday, June 21, 2014

PREA ineffectual with short staffing

Prisoner rapes teacher testing for high school equivalency, prison does little in response


This happened in Arizona, but it could happen here. How many jails in Minnesota are understaffed? 
How many volunteers are left alone with inmates due to low staffing?
The PREA is ineffectual without staff.
Correctional Officers are being asked to do more work with less staff and for less money.

Here's some excerpts from the story. Could this happen at your lock up?

PHOENIX — A teacher at an Arizona prison was alone in a room full of sex offenders before being stabbed and sexually assaulted by a convicted rapist, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press about an attack that highlighted major security lapses at the facility.... 

The teacher was administering a high school equivalency test to about a half-dozen inmates in a classroom with no guard nearby and only a radio to summon help...

After the last of the other inmates left, Jacob Harvey asked the teacher if she could open the bathroom and then attacked her, records show. Harvey is accused of stabbing her in the head with a pen, forcing her to the ground and raping her.


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