Category: Press Releases

Former Prison Employees Blow Whistle on Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Ohio

  • December 10, 2003

December 10, 2003 COLUMBUS, OH – A report released today asserts that three whistleblowers are speaking out about the sexual abuse of inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW). The inmates face a climate of frequent sexual abuse and are routinely placed in solitary confinement for reporting it, according to the former ORW employees

State Hearing Set on Sexual Abuse Behind Bars; Stop Prisoner Rape Calls Again for an End to Segregation of Female Inmates who Report Abuse

  • March 16, 2004

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

Stop Prisoner Rape Releases Report on Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention

  • October 7, 2004

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