§ 30302. PurposesThe 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.(Pub. L. 108–79, § 3, Sept. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 974.)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.