2017 US Code
Title 34 - Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Subtitle III - Prevention of Particular Crimes
Chapter 303 - Prison Rape Elimination
Sec. 30302 - Purposes
| 34 U.S.C. § 30302 (2017) |
| §30302. Purposes |
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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; (2) make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system; (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. |
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(Pub. L. 108–79, §3, Sept. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 974.) |
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CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 15602 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 34 - CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT |
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| Title 34 - CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT Subtitle III - Prevention of Particular Crimes CHAPTER 303 - PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION Sec. 30302 - Purposes |
| section 30302 |
| 2017 |
| January 12, 2018 |
| No |
| standard |
| 117 Stat. 974 |
| Public Law 108-79 |
