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...National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Abstract This article is excerpted from the 276-page National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report published in June 2009. Sexual abuse in correctional environments is a serious concern with dire consequences, especially for victims. Individuals...

... to, and monitoring such abuse. The Commissioners believe that standard compliance will result in achieving PREA's original goal: the protection of incarcerated individuals from sexual abuse. © The Ohio State University sentencing sexual abuse human rights National Prison Rape Elimination Commission PREA...

... four of the plaintiffs during their imprisonment.129 Whereas some federal courts have concluded that a sexual assault satisfies § 1997e(e),130 the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, in a letter to Congress addressing the unintended consequences of the PLRA, reported that we were shocked...

.... Its final report, part of which is reprinted in this issue of FSR, helped focus national attention on conditions of imprisonment. The effort continued when Vera helped develop the standards and draft the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission s final report, which summarizes Vera s motivation...

... The ABA version, unlike PARA, does not state expressly that prisoners can satisfy the PLRA exhaustion provision through presenting a claim within the statute of limitations. B. Proposed Regulatory Solutions The PREA created a National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to study the problem of prison...

... a serious problem in America s prisons and jails. There is disturbing evidence of individual assaults and patterns of violence in some U.S. prisons and jails. Corrections officers told the Commission about a near-constant fear of being assaulted. Former prisoners recounted gang violence, rape, beatings...

... for the Elimination of Prison Rape, National Council on Crime and Delinquency Former Project Director, Vera Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C. In early 2005, the Vera Institute of Justice launched the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America s Prisons (CSAAP). In the ensuing twelve months, the CSAAP engaged...

... below the minimum prison term. For example, the minimum statutory prison term for a typical rape is at least three years imprisonment. But according to the Korean penal code, in the presence of extenuating circumstances in any case, judges have the discretion to lower the sentence. In these situations...

... with a suspended license.13 The term as further interpreted by the circuit courts, also included: unauthorized use of a motor vehicle;14 indecency with a child;15 burglary of a habitation;16 attempted sexual abuse of a child;17 assisting or instigating escape or attempted escape of a prisoner;18 armed bank robbery...

... to enact many mandatory minimum sentences in an effort to reduce crime. Lawmakers across the country were led to believe that mandatory minimum prison sentences were necessary to remove drug dealers from the streets and stop the ow of illegal drugs into our communities. This national movement toward harsh...

... the most violent and dangerous felons like those who commit crimes of armed robbery or rape, the examples used to define violent crimes in the NCSC survey, should serve in prison is a matter typically determined more by legislators or sentencing commissions than by judges. Judges, as a group, rarely take...

... (e.g., the infamous 1989 rape of a female jogger in Central Park) contributed to the sense that our society was out of control. In addition, states retained indeterminate sentencing and relied upon paroling authorities who often made decisions behind closed doors and seemed to release prisoners...

... Colleen L. McGuire Holly O Grady Cook PANEL RECOMMENDATIONS Sentencing Data RSP Recommendation 11: The Secretary of Defense direct the Service Secretaries to provide sentencing data, categorized by offense type, particularly for all rape and sexual assault offenses under Article 120 of the UCMJ, forcible...

... Constitutes Effective Prison Oversight?, 30 Pace L. Rev. 1383 (2010). 52 As of the writing of this article, the Attorney General s final version of the PREA Standards has not been made public; however, the draft proposed standards included such a provision. Prison Rape Elimination Act National Standards, 28...

... was achieved. By putting criminals in prison, we have reduced violent and property crime and saved hundreds of thousands of good and honest Americans from being murdered, raped, robbed, assaulted, and otherwise victimized. The point of the rst statement in the Myths paper our federal prison population...

..., kidnapping, aggravated assault, and rape. Indeed, the very same day I sentenced Weldon Angelos, I gave a second-degree murderer 22 years in prison the maximum suggested by the Sentencing Guidelines. It irrational that Mr. Angelos will be spending 30 years in prison longer for carrying a gun to several...

... continues to severely restrict the access of prisoners to the courts.22 With the single exception of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, there is no discussion in the report of ways to prevent abuses occurring nor of any training for state and private prison staff on their obligations under the ICCPR...

... perpetrated on any incarcerated individual would be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination, and could be subject to criminal prosecution. These requirements and protections would be in addition to those of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. The reporting employee also would be covered...

... steps should include eliminating mandatory prison terms, reducing drug sentencing laws, creating additional diversion and alternative supervision programs, and decreasing the imposition of hard time. The real solution, then, is not to turn to the actuarial, but to reduce prison admissions and sentences...

... the hundreds of thousands of cases drawn from every corner of the federal system for this article. Another important fact to remember in relation to the Sentencing Commission s guideline change is that prison is not eliminated as an option for drug offenses, only the suggested length is being changed...