U.S. Congress Takes Crucial Step to Address Prisoner Rape Just Detention International Applauds Bipartisan Proposal to Strengthen Prison Rape Elimination Act Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., February 24, 2016 — More than a decade after the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), Congress is seeking to add new teeth to the law. Today’s
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
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