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Is it true that 84 percent of prison inmates were abused as children?
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∙ 14y ago
A website run by the Baltimore County police department says so. However, they cited no study, nor have I found one to back their assertion.
Nor do they distinguish between whether it is the nation's statistic, or just Balitmore's.
A U.S. Department of Justice report said that 10 to 76 percent of males in various stages of corrections reported physical or sexual abuse - so clearly Baltimore's figure given is questionable.
It may have to do with the fact that the figure is on their anti-child abuse page. Maybe it is a scare number, to encourage parents not to raise future felons. Whatever the reasons they have, it is not a number to be blindly accepted.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe top result on Google claims 84% of prison inmates were abused as children, but I couldn't find any reliable data to back it up.
A US Department of Justice report found that 50% of female inmates and 10% of male inmates were abused sometime prior to their incarceration (it doesn't specify whether it's "as children", it just says "before incarceration").
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