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LGBTQ Detainees Chief Targets for Sexual Abuse in Detention

Publish Date: 
February 2009
Description: 

This short fact sheet talks about how sexual abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) inmates constitutes one of the most rampant and ignored human rights violations in the U.S. today.
LGBTQ Detainees Chief Targets for Sexual Abuse in Detention [1]
 

Bibliography: 
Just Detention International
Filed under
Culturally Specific [2],Rape/Sexual Assault [3],Sexual Violence in Prisons [4]
Filed under
Fact Sheets [5]
Source URL: http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/fact-sheets/lgbtq-detainees-chief-targets-sexual-abuse-detention-0

Links:
[1] http://www.justdetention.org/en/factsheets/JD_Fact_Sheet_LGBTQ_vD.pdf
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/culturally-specific
[3] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/rape/sexual-assault
[4] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/sexual-violence-prisons
[5] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/fact-sheets