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Child abuse in the U.S. - percent of prison inmates who were abused as a child 1999
This statistic shows the percent of U.S. state prison inmates who experienced abuse as a child as of 1999, by sex and type of abuse. As of 1999, close to 37 percent of female state prisoners in the U.S. were abused as a child, about 1 in 4 was sexually abused.