A new organization in the region wants to help people who have served jail or prison time integrate more easily into the community.

 

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"No matter how terrible the crime, no prison sentence includes being raped," says Prison Fellowship Vice President Pat Nolan, a former federal prisoner who leads the organization's Justice Fellowship criminal justice reform program. In this radio interview, Pat talks about the urgency to eradicate sexual abuse in prisons and what his organization is doing to ensure safety and justice for the incarcerated.

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Groups from both left and right stood united on Capitol Hill over the rampant rate of rape in prison. Regardless of political persuasion, all agree the statistics are shocking.

 

That's why conservative groups like Prison Fellowship joined liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Tuesday.

 

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Pat Nolan, vice president of Prison Fellowship and a member of the commission that submitted the standards to Holder, told reporters that tens of thousands of inmates will be raped in the next year "because we haven't taken steps to prevent it. And that's -- that's a scandal. That's a stain on our national honor.

"The number of rapes in our facilities is preventable," Nolan said.

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