Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003

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The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) is the first United States federal law passed dealing with assault of prisoners, requiring "the gathering of national statistics about the problem; the development of guidelines for states about how to address prisoner rape; the creation of a review panel to hold annual hearings; and the provision of grants to states to combat the problem."[1]. It was partly a response to a Human Rights Watch report on prison rape in U.S. prisons, which made the front page of the New York Times in 2001.

The Act passed with broad bipartisan support. [2]

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