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34 U.S.C. § 30302 — Purposes
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The purposes of this chapter are to—
(1) establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;
(2) make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;
(3) develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;
(4) increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;
(5) standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;
(6) increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;
(7) protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;
(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
(9) reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.
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The purposes of this chapter are to—
(1) establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States;
(2) make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system;
(3) develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape;
(4) increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities;
(5) standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape;
(6) increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape;
(7) protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners;
(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
(9) reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.
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### Statutory Notes
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Section 15602 was editorially reclassified as [section 30302 of Title 34](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title34-section30302&num=0&edition=prelim), Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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TITLE 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
§ 30302
nance, and operation; race relations; poverty;
unemployment and homelessness. The effec-
tiveness and efficiency of these federally fund-
ed grant programs are compromised by the
failure of State officials to adopt policies and
procedures that reduce the incidence of prison
rape in that the high incidence of prison
rape—
(A) increases the costs incurred by Fed-
eral, State, and local jurisdictions to admin-
ister their prison systems;
(B) increases the levels of violence, di-
rected at inmates and at staff, within pris-
ons;
(C) increases health care expenditures,
both inside and outside of prison systems,
and reduces the effectiveness of disease pre-
vention programs by substantially increas-
ing the incidence and spread of HIV, AIDS,
tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, and other
diseases;
(D) increases mental health care expendi-
tures, both inside and outside of prison sys-
tems, by substantially increasing the rate of
post-traumatic stress disorder, depression,
suicide, and the exacerbation of existing
mental illnesses among current and former
inmates;
(E) increases the risks of recidivism, civil
strife, and violent crime by individuals who
have been brutalized by prison rape; and
(F) increases the level of interracial ten-
sions and strife within prisons and, upon re-
lease of perpetrators and victims, in the
community at large.
(15) The high incidence of prison rape has a
significant effect on interstate commerce be-
cause it increases substantially—
(A) the costs incurred by Federal, State,
and local jurisdictions to administer their
prison systems;
(B) the incidence and spread of HIV, AIDS,
tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, and other
diseases, contributing to increased health
and
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