42 U.S.C. § 15602 : US Code - Section 15602: Purposes

Search 42 U.S.C. § 15602 : US Code - Section 15602: Purposes

The 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.