Federal · Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

34 U.S.C. § 30302: Purposes

Civil

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This statute establishes national standards and priorities for detecting, preventing, and reducing prison rape, and sets accountability measures for prison officials in managing these issues.

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establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States; make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system; develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape; increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities; standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape; increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape; protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners; 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 reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.

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