inmates had been raped while incarcerated in the United States. A United States Department of Justice report, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported...

Rape in the United States is defined by the United States Department of Justice as "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any...

United States, the overwhelming majority of prison rape cases involve men who are raped by other men. This is due in part to the fact that in the United States...

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) is the first United States federal law intended to deter the sexual assault of prisoners. The bill was signed...

by the criminal justice system, with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. The United States has the largest...

Marital rape (a form of partner rape, of domestic violence, and sexual abuse by a spouse) is illegal in all 50 US states, though the details of the offence...

Rape laws vary across the United States jurisdictions. However, rape is federally defined (even though individual state definitions may differ) for statistical...

In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...

rape can fit into multiple categories, by for example being both a prison rape and a gang rape, or both a custodial rape and the rape of a child. The...

by hanging in the Clemens Unit in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas (Greater Houston) on January 26, 1996 after being raped in prison; he died months...

United States' focus on prison rape from a framed-problem perspective to a political rights and civil rights issue within the U.S. correction system. The issue...

Male Rape in U.S. Prisons is the title of an influential, book-length 2001 report by Human Rights Watch on prison rape in the United States. The report...

(PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken...

the PREA legislation and it was given subpoena powers as well as authorization to conduct a broad based study of prison rape in the United States. In...

activist committed to ending prison rape. He is best known for his book Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison, which details the sexual violence he experienced...

female-female prison rape are quite common and may be the least reported form of rape. Furthermore, many rape cases take place when the victims are below the age...

Historically, rape was thought to be, and defined as, a crime committed solely against females. This belief is still held in some parts of the world, but rape of...

Prisoner Rape human rights lobby bares his soul in a remarkable new memoir recounting his four years in prison--beginning at age 17". The Advocate (The national...

the rape kit is sealed and typically transferred to local law enforcement. In the United States, if the victim is undecided about reporting the rape,...

Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. According to the 2021 annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 31,677 rape...

The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape...

behind the walls of a prison, along with the fact that inmates often have no legal remedy to seek justice for abuse and rape. In the United States, the Alabama...

who had claimed he did not rape the girl, died in 2006 in an apparent murder–suicide in the United States. He was found in the third-floor apartment of...

including prison rape and in conflict areas where war rape is used as psychological warfare. Entire societies have been alleged to be rape cultures. The notion...

Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a prison official's "deliberate indifference" to a...

Statistics on rape and other sexual assaults are commonly available in industrialized countries, and have become better documented throughout the world. Inconsistent...

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Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the other is the military Midwest...

federal prison in Fremont County to the south of Florence, Colorado, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department...

females. Rape by strangers is usually less common than rape by people the victim knows, and male-on-male and female-on-female prison rapes are common...