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
May 24, 2002 Los Angeles – Under pressure from Stop Prisoner Rape, a nonprofit human rights organization, and nearly 100 other human rights, HIV/AIDS, prison rights, and sexual violence organizations, Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. has decided to stop airing a national television commercial that makes light of rape in prison. The commercial, created by Young