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Elmore Furth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-10 10:10 PM
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Female prison guards often behind sex misconduct
Edited on Thu Mar-18-10 10:51 PM by Elmore Furth
OK, here comes another stereotype.





... in either state or federal penitentiaries, where prison employees — male or female — are the violators if they have sex with inmates.

A Justice Department study shows that cases like Murphy's are common: Female staff are more often implicated than their male counterparts in prison sexual misconduct. While many cases could be considered consensual, incarceration experts and female prison guards say the problem is much more complicated.

Martin Horn, now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said female workers who have sex with inmates are often treated less harshly by officials than male worker who do the same.

One expert on the issue says the "culture of silence" in prisons makes it tough on the female workers.

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