Over two and a
half million American
children have a parent
behind bars. A whopping 60
percent of those
incarcerated in
U.S. prisons
are non-violent
offenders,
many of them in prison for
drug charges. Even
while our crime
rate has fallen, our incarcerated population has
climbed. As of 2011, an
estimated 217,000
American prisoners
were ra**d
each year
– that's
600 new victims every
day, a truly
horrifying number. In
2010, the Department
of Justice released a
report about
abuse in juvenile
detention centers. The
report found that
12.1 percent of all youth held
in juvenile detention reported
sexual violence;
youth held for between seven and 12
months had a victimization rate of
14.2 percent.
