Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
12-13-2022
Location or Event Name
SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building
Abstract
This Article discusses the modest aspirations of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (“PREA”) that passed unanimously in the United States Congress in 2003. The Article posits that PREA created opportunities for holding correctional authorities accountable by creating a baseline for safety and setting more transparent expectations for agencies’ practices for protecting prisoners from sexual abuse. Additionally, the Article posits that PREA enhanced the evolving standards of decency for the Eighth Amendment and articulated clear expectations of correctional authorities to provide sexual safety for people in custody.
External Links
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/sexual-abuse-of-female-inmates-in-federal-prisons-
Recommended Citation
Smith, Brenda, "Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Federal Prisons" (2022). Congressional and Other Testimony. 56.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_cong/56
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