Annual Report to Congress: Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Public Law 108-79 - September 2004

This report “fulfills the requirement in section 5(b) of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) to submit an annual report to Congress and to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, summarizing the activities of the Department of Justice regarding prison rape abatement for the preceding year” (p. 3). This report is divided into two parts: introduction; and activities and accomplishments by five U.S. Department of Justice agencies. Also included is “Rape and Coercive Sex in American Prisons: Interim Findings and Interpretation on Preliminary Research” by Mark S. Fleisher.