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State Workers Fired Over Allegations

posted 5:56 pm Thu October 08, 2009 - Oklahoma City

from NewsChannel 8 - http://www.ktul. com/news/ stories/1009/ 666849.html
Two state workers have been fired over allegations of sexual misconduct with female state inmates who helped maintain the grounds at the Governor's Mansion.

A spokesman for the Department of Corrections, Jerry Massie, says an investigation by the agency was turned over to the Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater's office on Friday. Massie says it includes allegations of sexual battery, forcible sodomy and rape.

Massie says the case involves two male employees of the Department of Central Services and at least three women who were serving state sentences at the Hillside Community Corrections Center in Oklahoma City.

Paul Sund, a spokesman for Gov. Brad Henry, says the misconduct allegedly occurred at a storage shed that is not on the mansion's grounds.

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January 04, 2009 (Detroit Free Press)
Sexual assaults on female inmates went unheeded
The Detroit Free Press is featuring a five-part special report on a multi-million dollar suit that has resulted from the sexual assault of female inmates by male guards in Michigan prisons. More than 500 women are suing and, thus far, stand to collect $50 million. "A prison is not supposed to turn you back out to society with more harm than when you came in," said Deborah LaBelle, an Ann Arbor civil rights lawyer who led a team that sued on behalf of the women. "No one, no one in this country, no one in a civilized society is sentenced to be raped and assaulted in prison
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The State | 02/26/2009 | Condemned man: SC deputies brutally beat him

Posted on Thu, Feb. 26, 2009

Condemned man: SC deputies brutally beat him
By MEG KINNARD
The Associated Press
A federal judge has removed a South Carolina sheriff from a lawsuit by a death row inmate suing over his treatment while in jail.

The judge ruled Thursday that attorneys for Chadrick Fulks failed to prove he was kept in inhumane conditions while at the jail run by Lexington County Sheriff James Metts.

The federal lawsuit against four of Metts' deputies will continue.

Fulks says he was beaten in 2003 while awaiting transfer to another jail.

Fulks testified Thursday via video teleconference from federal death row in Terre Haute, Ind., that he thought the brutal beating was never going to end.

Fulks and co-defendant Brandon Basham face the death penalty for killing Alice Donovan during a two-week crime spree after escaping from a Kentucky jail.

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WASHINGTON – An estimated 3.2 percent of jail inmates (24,700) reported one or more incidents of sexual victimization in a survey mandated by the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics announced today. About 1.6 percent of all inmates (12,100) reported an incident involving another inmate, 2.0 percent (15,200) reported an incident involving jail staff, and 0.4 percent reported being victimized by both other inmates and staff.

The survey limited reporting by inmates to incidents occurring in the past 6 months or since their admission to the jail, if more recent. Sexual victimization is defined as all types of sexual activity, including inmate-on-inmate nonconsensual sexual acts and abusive sexual contacts or unwanted touching. It also includes both willing and unwilling sexual activity with staff. An estimated 1.3 percent of inmates (10,400) said they had sex or sexual contact unwillingly with staff, and 1.1 percent (8,400) said they willingly had sexual contact with staff.

The survey was conducted in 282 randomly selected local jails between April and December 2007, with a sample of 40,419 inmates. Eighteen jail facilities had an overall sexual victimization rate of at least twice the national average of 3.2 percent, and 18 facilities had no reports of sexual victimization from inmates.

The Torrance County Detention Facility (New Mexico) recorded the highest overall rate of sexual victimization (13.4 percent). When sexual victimization excluded allegations of touching only, the Torrance County Detention Facility remained the highest with 8.9 percent, followed by the Brevard County Detention Center in Florida (7.8 percent), the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in New Mexico (6.7 percent), and the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail (5.8 percent).

Overall, 0.6 percent of all jail inmates reported an injury related to sexual victimization. Among all victims, 16 percent reported minor injuries (such as bruises, cuts, or scratches), 8 percent reported being knocked unconscious, 6 percent reported anal or rectal tearing, 6 percent internal injuries.



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