{"identifier":"/us/usc/t34/s30302","title":34,"num":"\u00a7\u202f30302.","heading":"Purposes","text":"\u00a7\u202f30302.\nPurposes\nThe purposes of this chapter are to\u2014\n(1) establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;\n(2) make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;\n(3) develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;\n(4) increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;\n(5) standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;\n(6) increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;\n(7) protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;\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(9) reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t34/s30302.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f30302."},{"t":"heading","text":"Purposes","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The purposes of this chapter are to\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/5","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(5)"},{"t":"content","text":" standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/6","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(6)"},{"t":"content","text":" increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/7","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(7)"},{"t":"content","text":" protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/8","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(8)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s30302/9","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(9)"},{"t":"content","text":" reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}