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Juvenile delinquents report sexual abuse at Louisiana facilities
By Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune
January 12, 2010, 5:10AM

Young people locked up at one Louisiana secure juvenile facility reported more allegations of sexual abuse than the national average, according to a federal report http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2113 released last week.

As part of a federal initiative to reduce the occurrence of prison rape, the Bureau of Justice Statistics http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/ surveyed young people living at facilities that hold juveniles delinquents to find out about their exposure to sexual misconduct.

In Louisiana, the allegations were almost all of inappropriate staff sexual conduct with incarcerated youth.
Full text at http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/01/post_139.html

Laura Maggi can be reached at lmaggi@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3316.