New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported rates of sexual victimization.

These are the findings of a new Department of Justice (DOJ) report about sexual victimization in state and federal prisons, as reported by inmates.

In its research, published in December, the Justice Department carried out a National Inmate Survey in 177 federal prisons, some male, some female, from March 2023 to March 2024. The annual survey is required by the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which aims to stamp out prison rape via data collection, grants and research.

The survey of 27,541 state and federal inmates found that some 4.1 percent of adult p

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