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"Improving Prison Oversight to Address Sexual Violence in Detention"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of a new "Issue Brief" by Melissa Rothstein and Lovisa Stannow being distributed by the American Constitution Society.  The issue brief can be downloaded at this link, and here is the ACS's description of the paper: In 2003, Congress focused national attention on the problem of sexual violence in our prisons, jails, and detention facilities when it passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).  A commission created under the law just completed a comprehensive, five-year process that resulted in recommended national standards designed to address the problem, and Attorney General Eric Holder has one year to review the recommended standards and adopt final binding national standards.  When adopted, the standards will immediately apply to all federal detention facilities, and states will have one year to certify their compliance or risk losing 5% of their federal corrections-related funding...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).