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Human Trafficking

Human trafficking involves the use of force, coercion, or fraud to induce an individual into performing a commercial sexact (sex trafficking), or to subject them to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery (labor trafficking). Languagebarriers, lack of personal...

Indicators of Mental Health Problems of Inmates

About 1 in 7 state and federal prisoners and 1 in 4 jail inmates self-reported experiences that met the threshold for serious psychological distress (SPD) in the 30 days prior to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2011-12 National Inmate Survey. In comparison, data...