Category: Press Releases

Public Hearing on the Plight of Youth In U.S. Detention Facilities

  • May 30, 2006

May 30, 2006 BOSTON – Whether incarcerated in juvenile or adult facilities, youth are among the chief victims of horrifying sexual abuse at the hands of corrections officials and other inmates. As usual in the world of sexual violence behind bars, the youngest, the smallest, and the least experienced in the ways of prison life are

Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) Welcomes New Report on Prison Conditions

  • June 8, 2006

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;

Government Prisoner Rape Study Shows Increase in Sexual Violence Reports, Raises Concerns About Correctional Authorities’ Follow Up

  • July 30, 2006

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

Federal Hearing on Investigations and Prosecutions of Sexual Assaults of Inmates

  • August 1, 2006

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.

SPR President Publishes Memoir, Launches Book Tour

  • October 26, 2006

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