Category: Press Releases

7UP To Pull TV Ad Under Pressure from Human Rights Groups

  • May 24, 2002

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

Federal Legislation Introduced to Curb Prisoner Rape

  • June 12, 2002

June 12, 2002 WASHINGTON D.C. – Democratic and Republican members of the House and Senate have come together in a groundbreaking, bipartisan effort to introduce the first-ever federal legislation to address the problem of sexual assault in corrections facilities. Sen. Ted Kennedy, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Rep. Bobby Scott, and Rep. Frank Wolf announced today that

Stop Prisoner Rape sues to protect its right to speak out on behalf of prisoners

  • July 19, 2002

July 19, 2002 LOS ANGELES – Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) is suing the Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections over a new law that criminalizes its communication with Arizona state prisoners and punishes prisoners if information about them appears on its website. The ACLU is representing SPR and two other plaintiffs in their claim

Senate May Pass Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002 in Upcoming Session

  • August 14, 2002

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