Immigration Detainees Seek Prison-Rape Protection
- Carrie Johnson
- December 13, 2011
- National Public Radio
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
Sending Some Hope
- Denise Oliver Velez
- December 18, 2011
- Daily Kos
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
Send Holiday Hope to an Incarcerated Survivor of Rape
- Kjerstin Johnson
- December 22, 2011
- Bitch Media
Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…
SPR files Brief in Farmer v. Brennan
- January 11, 1994
As the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Farmer v. Brennan tomorrow, it will also consider written arguments submitted in a “friend of the court” brief by Stop Prisoner Rape, a national organization, that the rape of male prisoners is widespread, repetitive, deadly, devastating, predictable, and preventable. Prisoner sexual assault, the Court was
Hailing Supreme Court Decision
- June 7, 1994
June 7, 1994 Supreme Court Hailed for “Historic Breakthrough” in Prison Rape Decision The president of the national organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) today hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision yesterday in Farmer v. Brennan (argued January 12) as a “historic breakthrough” in attempts to end what it called “the widespread and institutionalized practice