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Today the Department of Justice released the long-awaited Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) regulations, representing the first time that the federal government has issued national standards to help end sexual abuse in correctional facilities. The regulations are two years late and a lot of harm has been done in their absence, but now that they鈥檝e finally been released they can help us protect important constitutional and human rights and ensure safe and fair correctional facilities that assist prisoners in rehabilitation rather than needlessly brutalizing them. The 老澳门开奖结果 supports the Department鈥檚 efforts to protect and prevent sexual abuse in places of detention, although we regret that immigration facilities are not yet included in these standards.

Sadly, the problem of prison rape is just as pressing now as it was when Congress passed PREA in 2003. Below is the shameful index of prison rape in prisons, jails and youth detention centers across the country. These numbers reflect a national tragedy. But PREA gives us the critical tools to stop rape in our corrections facilities. Now, federal, state and local governments and the public must take strong and continued action to ensure that the promise of PREA becomes a safe and secure reality.

Number of people imprisoned in the United States: 2.3 million

of victims of rape or sexual abuse in U.S. prison, jails and juvenile detention facilities in the past year according to the Justice Department: 216,600 (the DOJ admitted it was likely 鈥渦nderestimating the extent of the problem鈥�)

Number of victims of rape or sexual abuse in U.S. prison, jails and juvenile detention facilities since the initial PREA legislation as signed into law (Sept. 4, 2003): 1,884,909

Number of days past the Department of Justice鈥檚 deadline (June 23, 2010) for establishing the final standards: 717

Number of victims of rape or sexual abuse in U.S. prison, jails and juvenile detention facilities since the Department of Justice missed its deadline to establish regulations: 411,332

of youth in state juvenile facilities and large non-state facilities who experienced one or more incidents of sexual victimization in the past 12 months: 12%

of youth sexually victimized by a corrections staff member: 10.3%

of former state prisoners reporting one or more incidents of sexual victimization while in jail, prison or post-release community treatment facilities: 9.6%

of male former state prisoners who identified as homosexual or gay who reported being sexually victimized by another inmate: 39%

of male bisexual former state prisoners who reported being sexually victimized by another inmate: 34%

of transgender prisoners reporting being sexually assaulted in prison or jail according to a national survey: 15%

of black transgender prisoners reporting being sexually assaulted in prison or jail according to a national survey: 34%

of former state prisoners who experience retaliation in the form of disciplinary charges after reporting sexual victimization by a staff member: 46.3%

of former state prisoners who reported no facility response at all, after reporting sexual victimization by another prisoner: 37%

of states which allow cross-gender pat downs: 30

Number of reported incidents of sexual abuse in immigration detention facilities since 2007: 185

of organizations which urged President Obama to instruct the Department of Justice to extend PREA coverage to immigration detention facilities: 38

of members of the National Sheriff鈥檚 Association, which called on the Department of Justice to extend its PREA regulations to Department of Homeland Security detention centers: 18,000

of original sponsors of PREA who intended the legislation to include immigration detention facilities: 8

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