August 14, 2002 WASHINGTON D.C. – The Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002, a bill that would help end the sexual abuse of prisoners, could be passed by the Senate as soon as September. The Senate, which held a July 31 Judiciary Committee hearing on the bill, is on recess through Sept. 3. Staffers say
August 16, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape said a strong message was sent today by the sentencing of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s custody assistant convicted of performing sex acts with a Twin Towers inmate. Meko Goodley, who took part in sex acts with a female inmate at
September 16, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) today praised a federal judge’s ruling that will allow Pelican Bay prisoners to receive mail containing material printed from the Internet. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Sept. 11 that prisoners have
Sept. 26, 2002 WASHINGTON D.C. – House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) today endorsed the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002, legislation he called “a truly compassionate initiative that will make real progress in changing the realities of incarceration.” Hastert’s endorsement came in a letter to Charles Colson, the chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries. The group
October 30, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The FBI’s practice of including only female rape victims in its annual Uniform Crime Report on violent crime is outdated and ignores the vast numbers of men who are raped and sexually brutalized in prison, the director of the nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape said today. Lara