March 16, 2004 LOS ANGELES – Three months after the nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) released a hard-hitting report on the sexual abuse of female inmates in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, Ohio’s Correctional Institution Inspection Committee will meet Wednesday, March 17, to discuss approaches to preventing sexual assault behind bars. On
May 3, 2004 LOS ANGELES – The reported sexual degradation and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war is a deplorable violation of fundamental human rights that rises to the level of torture, the group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) said today. Lara Stemple, the executive director of the national human rights group, called recently reported
October 7, 2004 LOS ANGELES – The nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape today released a report calling attention to the problem of sexual abuse of immigration detainees in the United States and urging much-needed improvements to the detention policies of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The report, No Refuge
November 5, 2004 LOS ANGELES – Gay prisoner rape survivor T.J. Parsell has transformed himself from a victim of horrifying abuse to an advocate for basic human rights. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, November 9-10, he will be in Los Angeles to tell his story and to promote corrections policy reform that seeks to protect the
August 1, 2005 National human rights organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) welcomed the release on Sunday, July 31, 2005, of the U.S. Department of Justice’s first statistical report on prisoner rape, while cautioning that the report findings represent only the tip of the iceberg. The government report, which covers formal complaints filed by inmates, found
