Criminal
May 12, 2025
The prison rape loophole in 'Tough on Crime' politics
In 2003, Congress united to confront the epidemic of prison sexual violence by passing the Prison Rape Elimination Act, but the Trump administration's defunding of its enforcement arm--the PREA Resource Center--recklessly abandons vulnerable inmates, undermines accountability, and signals a disturbing disregard for human dignity and justice.
Richard Alexander
Managing Partner
Alexander Law Group LLP
Phone: (408) 289-1776
Email: ra@alexanderlaw.com
Eugene M. Hyman
Judge (Ret.)
Santa Clara County Superior Court
Santa Clara Univ Law School
Eugene is a retired judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, where for 20 years he presided over cases in the criminal, civil, probate, family and delinquency divisions of the court. He has presided over an adult domestic violence court and in 1999 presided over the first juvenile domestic violence and family violence court in the United States.
Congress did something extraordinary in 2003: it put aside
partisanship and unanimously passed the Prison Rape
Elimination Act (PREA), recognizing that the epidemic of sexual abuse behind
U.S. bars was intolerable in any society that claims to value human dignity.
Now, the Trump administration has abruptly cut off all funding to the National PREA Resource Center--the very organization responsible for implementing and supp...
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