National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report

Congress affirmed the duty to protect incarcerated individuals from sexual abuse by unanimously enacting the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. The Act called for the creation of a National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) to study the causes and consequences of sexual abuse in confinement and to develop standards for correctional facilities nationwide that would set in motion a process once considered impossible: the elimination of prison rape. 

NPREC published their report, including an executive summary and detailed findings, in June 2009.