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DATE: SATURDAY, April 6, 1991                   TAG: 9104060138
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

STUDY: MANY FEMALE CONVICTS WERE ABUSED

Nearly half the women convicted of violent crimes say they have been sexually or physically assaulted sometime in their lives, the Justice Department reported Friday.

The Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said that 49.3 percent of violent female criminals surveyed reported such assaults.

Among female convicts, violent criminals reported the highest incidence of having suffered physical abuse. Drug offenders reported the lowest incidence of physical abuse against them - 30.5 percent.

The bureau's 1986 study of "Women in Prison" was drawn primarily from its Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities. - Associated Press 


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