Explain how the national prison rape elimination standards might end widespread prison rape in the United States

What will be an ideal response?


The standards require facilities to do the following:
• Develop and implement plans to provide adequate staffing levels to protect inmates against abuse.
• Train employees to prevent sexual abuse.
• Thoroughly investigate all reports of sexual misconduct by inmates to staff.
• Create multiple avenues for inmates to privately report sexual abuse.
• Screen inmates for prior sexual victimization or abuse.
• Prohibit cross-gender pat searches.
• In adult facilities, separate inmates under 18 from adult inmates.
• Offer ongoing medical and mental health evaluation and treatment, as well as access to outside rape counseling for inmates who have been victimized.
• Publish sexual abuse statics annually for each facility, and audit each facility at least once every three years.

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