§ 30302. Purposes

establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;

make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;

develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;

increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;

standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;

increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;

protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;

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

reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.