In recent trainings I had to cover material regarding prison rape.
Generally that's not a problem in the classrooms on prison, so it doesn't affect me much, but you Never know.
Here's background on the act.
- Wikipedia.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) is the first United States federal law intended to deter the sexual assault of prisoners. The bill was signed into law on September 4, 2003.
Public awareness of prison rape is relatively recent and estimates of its prevalence vary widely.
In 2001, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a paper called No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons, the single event that contributed most to PREA's passage two years later.[2] HRW had published several papers on the topic of prison rape in the years since its initial report called All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons, released in 1996, when there was barely any Congressional support for legislation aimed at prison rape. A 1998 attempt by Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), known as the Custodial Sexual Abuse Act of 1998, was attached to the reauthorization bill for the Violence Against Women Act but summarily removed and never reintroduced.
Michael Horowitz, a Hudson Institute senior fellow, has been credited with playing a part in passing PREA by helping to lead a coalition of the bill's supporters.
Groups which supported the bill:
- Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
- Concerned Women for America.
- Amnesty International USA
- Focus on the Family
- Human Rights Watch
- NAACP
- National Association of Evangelicals
- Penal Reform International
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Presbyterian Church USA
- Prison Fellowship
- Salvation Army
- Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
For more:
- S.1435 - Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.
- 42 U.S. Code Chapter 147 - PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION.
