Prison Rape Elimination Act Case Study

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was established in 2003 to secure and protect prison inmates from sexual abuse (National Prison Rape Elimination Commission p.44). The idea of eliminating rape within prison systems is not only beneficial to the prisoners, but also, to the staff. Victims of sexual assault are pin-pointed for unintentionally failing to succeed in rehabilitation methods due to their experience as sexual assault victims. Simply, if the prison system fails to provide a solution, then it fails in providing the full experience of an individual attaining rehabilitation while in prison. The impact on prison rape by PREA is noted below while highlighting the underlying framework that may constitute sexual incidents. PREA undoubtedly influences the prison system and it is an effective strategy if the execution of plan is as according to its guideline.

There are many notions that must be understood prior to studying what influences the perpetration of rapes in prisons, for example, studying the context behind each scenario or case. However, there is one notion that is inevitable to disregard and that is, the consideration of ideals of punitive

For example, the rates of youth sexual victimization by other youth were three times more likely within a female-only facility than in that of a male-only facility (Beck p.3) but, when looking at staff -on-youth incidents, then it was more likely to occur within male-only prisons. Moreover, there were some facilities in which the concepts behind PREA were successfully explained to the inmates, by educating them as they entered the institution; these institutions demonstrated a 1.1% of sexual assault which then assumes that the execution of successful education of PREA to inmates upon arrival is effective. The frequency of the rapes or sexual assault is far less likely if staff and inmates are properly