Product of American University, Washington College of Law Project on Addressing Prison Rape. Collection of Case Law summaries relating to anti-fraternization polices and their utility in preventing staff sexual abuse in custody.

This document created by American University, Washington College of Law Project on Addressing Prison Rape gathers legal cases involving sexual abuse and sexual harassment and their rulings.

Product of American University, Washington College of Law Project on Addressing Prison Rape. Collection of Case Law summaries relating to cross-gender searches.

Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a prison official's "deliberate indifference" to a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate violates the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment. This decision was influential in the eventual passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.