Posts Tagged ‘Arizona Department of Corrections’
Prison Legal News battles DOC censorship of important information on sexual violence in prisons
By Christopher Zoukis Prison Legal News has launched an important lawsuit against Arizona’s Department of Corrections over the withholding of their publication from prisoners. The editions in question discuss documented cases of rape and sexual violence perpetrated by prison staff against inmates—one of which took place in an Arizona prison and was heard in federal…
Read MorePrison Rape Elimination Act Blunders: Arizona Department of Corrections Refuses to Comply with PREA Standards
On May 15, 2014, the State of Arizona joined six other states and one territory in a dubious group that has missed the deadline for compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), a federal statutory scheme that set “national standards for the detection, reduction and punishment of prison rape,” signed into law in 2003. …
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