Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., January 26, 2016 — Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions to curb solitary confinement, a harmful and overused practice that has had severe consequences for prisoner rape survivors. The new measures, which apply to facilities run by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), include many reforms supported by
As the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Farmer v. Brennan tomorrow, it will also consider written arguments submitted in a “friend of the court” brief by Stop Prisoner Rape, a national organization, that the rape of male prisoners is widespread, repetitive, deadly, devastating, predictable, and preventable. Prisoner sexual assault, the Court was
June 7, 1994 Supreme Court Hailed for “Historic Breakthrough” in Prison Rape Decision The president of the national organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) today hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision yesterday in Farmer v. Brennan (argued January 12) as a “historic breakthrough” in attempts to end what it called “the widespread and institutionalized practice
July 19, 1996 NEW YORK – Stephen Donaldson, president of Stop Prisoner Rape, an organization dedicated to ending the rape of prisoners and assisting survivors of jailhouse rape, died on Thursday, July 18 in New York City, where he lived. He would have been 50 on July 27. The cause of death was a indeterminate
October 21, 2001 WASHINGTON D.C. – Nearly 100 academics, lawyers, and activists gathered at American University’s Washington College of Law over the weekend to attend the first-ever national conference on prisoner rape. “Not Part of the Penalty: Ending Prisoner Rape” was hosted by Stop Prisoner Rape, the ACLU National Prison Project, Amnesty International, Human Rights