Category: Press Releases

New Government Report: In Juvenile Justice System, Abusive Staff Rarely Held Accountable

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., January 28, 2016 — Barely half of known staff perpetrators of sexual abuse in youth detention face any legal consequences, according to a new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Today’s study, which includes data reported by local and state juvenile facilities over a six-year period, also showed that roughly

JDI Applauds President Obama’s Key Reforms to Solitary Confinement 

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

SPR files Brief in Farmer v. Brennan

  • January 11, 1994

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

Hailing Supreme Court Decision

  • June 7, 1994

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

Stephen Donaldson, 49 – Led Reform Movement Against Jailhouse Rape

  • July 19, 1996

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