but is it your position -- the prison rape he limb action act the governor was throwing to, known as p r.ais try to reduce sexual assaults in prison, it was pass ed in 2003, but it wasn't until almost 10 years later in he michigan's department of corrections began separating minors from adults. we had heard that there were several corrections officials at the event. since we had been requesting an interview for weeks with no success, we tried approaching them directly. i a am sebastian walk we are al jazerra. we wanted know why it had taken so long for the state to act on federal findings. >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> but nobody wanted to talk. here is michigan's top corrections official, telling me to go and speak to his staff. so if we do get somebody -- >> it will be me. >> it will be on you -- >> eventually this spokesperson did agree to an interview . we wanted to find out how many assault complaints the department received when youth were still being housed with adults. would it not be obvious that younger inmates would be targeted more frequently for this type of attack g