§30302 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

Summary

Requires that no prison rape be allowed and makes stopping it a top priority in every U.S. prison system. Sets national rules for finding, preventing, reducing, and punishing prison rape. Improves and standardizes data on how often it happens. Holds prison officials responsible when they fail. Protects prisoners' Eighth Amendment rights. Directs federal grant money toward related services (health care, mental health, disease prevention, crime response, prison operations, and social supports) and aims to lower the costs prison rape creates for interstate commerce.

Title 34, §30302

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The purposes of this chapter are to—

(1)establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;

(2)make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;

(3)develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;

(4)increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;

(5)standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;

(6)increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;

(7)protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;

(8)increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Federal expenditures through grant programs such as those dealing with health care; mental health care; disease prevention; crime prevention, investigation, and prosecution; prison construction, maintenance, and operation; race relations; poverty; unemployment; and homelessness; and

(9)reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 15602 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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