JDI was instrumental in securing passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA), the first-ever federal law addressing prisoner rape.

The decision marked the first time the Supreme Court had directly addressed prisoner rape.

Several studies argue that male-male prisoner rape, as well as female-female prisoner rape, are common types of rape which go unreported even more frequently than rape in the general population.

Smith had been active in organizing prisoners to fight against prisoner rape.

In 2010, JDI launched the nation's first-ever inmate peer education program focused on preventing prisoner rape, at a large men's prison in California, California Correctional Institution.

Pop-culture representations of prisoner rape as a joke or as an inevitable fact of prison life are deeply ingrained in the American public consciousness.

JDI has applied lessons learned from its work in the U.S. to the fight to end prisoner rape internationally.

Given the shame and stigma of prisoner rape, it's not surprising that we don't know the full extent of the problem, but we should know how safe our facilities are.

Human Rights Watch raised concerns with prisoner rape and medical care for inmates.

Holder has one year to develop national standards, based on NPREC's report, for reducing prisoner rape.