Impact of Prisoner Sexual Violence: Challenges of Implementing Public Law 108-79 the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, The;Symposium (original) (raw)

2006, Journal of Legislation

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, a wound that had been festering in American corrections finally received examination and treatment. For decades, there had been reports of the "[c]ruel and [u]sual"I punishment of prisoner rape which had broken forth in the national media and in scholarly journals, raising the alarm about what some called "America's most ignored crime problem." 2 In 1996, Struckman-Johnson, Struckman-Johnson, Rucker, Bumby and Donaldson reported that twenty-two percent of Nebraska's mal prisoners were the victims of sexual pressuring, attempted sexual assault or completed rapes 3 and that one in ten prisoners were victims of a completed rape. 4 Human Rights Watch decried the sexual abuse of women in state prisons in the United States. 5 The National Institute of Corrections also initiated a training program to address staff sexual misconduct that same year. 6 Ironically,

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