THE PRISON RAPE PANELISTS. Further adventures in the crimes statistics search led to the discovery that a Review Panel on Prison Rape was empanelled on March 29, 2006 over at the Department of Justice, and that one of its three members is Steven McFarland, a faith-based bureaucrat at DoJ. In light of the prison rape blogging of recent weeks, that’s probably something worth looking into.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.