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The bipartisan commission was created by Congress as part of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 to study federal, state and local government policies and practices related to the prevention, detection, response and monitoring of sexual abuse in correction and detention facilities in the United States.

The Commission’s findings and strongly worded guidelines were delivered to Attorney General Eric Holder on June 23, 2009. It is the attorney general’s responsibility to issue mandatory standards for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional institutions that receive federal money. By law, the attorney general was given one year to consider the report’s recommendations and issue standards to reduce the scourge of sexual violence in the nation’s prisons.

“Prison rape is not a comfortable topic for most Americans, regardless of their religious or political affiliation” said Pat Nolan, a member of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and a vice president of Prison Fellowship. “As a society, we have the responsibility to protect those we send to prison from abuses such as rape and sexual assault. At Prison Fellowship, we strongly believe the time to bring prison rape to an end is now.”

NPREC Report

http://www.cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/nprec/20090820154816/http://nprec.us/publication/