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§ 30302. Purposes\nThe purposes of this chapter are to—(1) establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;\n\n(2) make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;\n\n(3) develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;\n\n(4) increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;\n\n(5) standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;\n\n(6) increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;\n\n(7) protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;\n\n(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\n\n(9) reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.\n\n(Pub. L. 108–79, § 3, Sept. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 974.)\n\nCodification\n

Section was formerly classified to section 15602 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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