By Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post
DENVER, Colo. — More than one of every 10 women at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility claim staff members sexually assaulted them, according to a national study.
The study indicated that 10.7 percent of 160 inmates at the prison claimed they were sexually abused by staff, according to the study headed by Dr. Allen J. Beck, a statistician for the U.S. Bureau of Statistics.
It was the highest rate in the nation, according to the report, “Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates 2011-12" released Thursday morning by the U.S. Department of Justice. The study was conducted between February 2011 and May 2012.
Colorado prison was identified among 12 prisons across the country considered “high-rate” facilities based on reports of staff sexual misconduct including eight male prisons and four female prisons.
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