Category: Press Releases

JDI Launches Annual Words of Hope Holiday Card Campaign

In its fifth year, JDI’s Words of Hope provides life-changing support to people who have endured rape while in the government’s custody. Los Angeles, December 1, 2014  – Today, JDI kicks off its Words of Hope campaign to deliver holiday cards to men and women who have survived rape in prison. Through the campaign, JDI offers

Stop Prisoner Rape Opens Office in Los Angeles

  • October 20, 2001

LOS ANGELES – Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR), a human rights advocacy organization dedicated to ending sexual violence in detention, opened their first formal office in Los Angeles today. Founded by survivors of prisoner rape, the organization has been an outspoken advocate for reform for more than twenty years, but until now, their shoe-string budget has