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;(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. Pub. L. 108-79, §3, Sept. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 974.EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATIONSection was formerly classified to section 15602 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
- prison rape
- The term "prison rape" includes the rape of an inmate in the actual or constructive control of prison officials.
- prison
- The term "prison" means any confinement facility of a Federal, State, or local government, whether administered by such government or by a private organization on behalf of such government, and includes-(A) any local jail or police lockup; and(B) any juvenile facility used for the custody or care of juvenile inmates.