October 21, 2001 WASHINGTON D.C. – Nearly 100 academics, lawyers, and activists gathered at American University’s Washington College of Law over the weekend to attend the first-ever national conference on prisoner rape. “Not Part of the Penalty: Ending Prisoner Rape” was hosted by Stop Prisoner Rape, the ACLU National Prison Project, Amnesty International, Human Rights
December 13, 2001 Los Angeles – Today, it was revealed that Governor Gray Davis has approved a settlement between the California Department of Corrections and three current correctional officers and one former CDC employee accused in a pending federal civil rights lawsuit of encouraging and abetting the prison rapes of a former Corcoran prison inmate,
March 12, 2002 Los Angeles – Stop Prisoner Rape (PR), a national human rights organization dedicated to ending sexual violence against men, women, and youth in all forms of detention, is speaking out about a federal court decision to overturn the conviction of three officers involved in obstructing the Abner Louima police brutality investigation. A
April 11, 2002 LOS ANGELES – Lovisa Stannow, Executive Director of the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health, has joined the Board of Directors of Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR), a human rights advocacy organization dedicated to ending sexual violence in detention. Ms. Stannow has spent the past decade working in the fields of public health and
April 29, 2002 Los Angeles – In response to 7UP’s use of jokes about prisoner rape in their Captive Audience commercial, Stop Prisoner Rape and 94 organizations from across the nation have joined together in protest. Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR), a nonprofit human rights organization dedicated to ending sexual violence against men, women, and youth