PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — An ex-inmate at the Clallam County jail says she overheard fellow inmates joking and lying about a federal survey that later on ranked that jail the third-highest among 286 U.S. jails for instances of inmate-reported sexual misconduct by staff.
The Peninsula Daily News reports that ex-inmate Elizabeth Stallings says a group of women who were bored didn’t take the survey seriously in February 2009.
The results came earlier this month in a Bureau of Justice Statistics report, and Clallam County sheriff Bill Benedict has vehemently denied misconduct in his jail. He has invited the FBI to investigate but he says he expect the bureau to decline.
The survey was anonymous. The report found that 6.1 percent of the 75 inmates surveyed said they were sexually assaulted by staff, and 4.4 percent said they were victimized by other inmates.
