Ending Prison Rape
From OCDLA Library of Defense
This wikilog article is a draft, it was not published yet.
by: Ryan • September 25, 2012 • no comments
Here is an article from the New York Review of Books on the new federal plan to stop prison rapes.
Key quote:
In 2003, however, both chambers of Congress unanimously passed and President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which called both for extensive study of sexual abuse in detention and national standards to prevent, detect, and respond to it. The Obama administration has now issued those standards. If they are successful-and we believe they will be, to an extent many people may find surprising-not only will they reduce the incidence of prisoner rape dramatically, they will make American detention facilities better run, more humane, and safer places in general.
