Los Angeles, June 8, 2006 Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR), a national human rights organization, welcomes today’s release of Confronting Confinement, a report by the independent Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons. The report highlights a number of shortcomings that plague U.S. prisons and jails, including: insufficient medical and mental health services for detainees;
National human rights organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) welcomed the release today by the U.S. Department of Justice of its second annual statistical report on prisoner rape, while noting the limitations of data based purely on administrative records. The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report found that the number of formal complaints
August 1, 2006 DETROIT – A startling number of cases of sexual abuse of prisoners are never prosecuted, leading to an atmosphere of impunity for these serious crimes. While severe underreporting and a lack of political will do exist, prison officials’ failure to investigate suspected or reported abuse promptly and properly is also to blame.
Los Angeles, October 26, 2006 | Tour Dates and Locations National human rights organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) is pleased to announce the publication of FISH: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison, written by its President, T.J. Parsell (Carroll & Graf, November 2006). A multi-city book tour, including panel discussions on prisoner
Los Angeles, November 20, 2006 – The national human rights organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) deplores the flippant portrayal of sexual violence in a new comedy by Universal Pictures. In Let’s Go to Prison, released nationwide last Friday, rape is the subject of back-to-back jokes and crude innuendo. “While humor can be an effective way