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Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2006, page 21
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Cornell Corrections,
Guard Misconduct,
State Legislation.
Location:
Arkansas.
by Michael Rigby
Nearly two years after the Prison Rape Elimination Act, (PREA) passed unopposed in the U.S. House and Senate, an attitude of indifference and skepticism surrounding prison sexual assaults still permeates the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC).
Signed into law on, September 4, 2003, as Public Law …
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