Legal experts assert that this practice violates the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which requires prisons to assess inmates’ risk of sexual assault and consider their LGBTQ+ status in ...

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Schwertner said he filed a federal rape complaint known as a PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) in June of 2023, WOIO-19 reported. He said that as an inmate he could not have consented to sex.

A whistleblower went public with allegations that the Oklahoma Department of Corrections wasn’t thoroughly investigating ...

In October 2023, a female inmate called the Greene County Jail Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) hotline to report that Lopez was watching her shower and acting sexually inappropriately toward her.

In July, the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 was passed unanimously by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. On September 4, 2003, President Bush signed the bill into law.