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The article on the start of rape trial of Carlos Richard Martinez, former lieutenant at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York City, accused of using his position of authority to repeatedly rape a female inmate.

The author argues about police custody and legalized torture of the prisoners. Freddie Gray who died in the police custody, Tanisha Anderson who suffered from bipolar disorder and was pushed into the prone prison where she died, Air Force veteran Anthony Hall who was killed are few prisoners mentioned. The author has also mentioned about rape and sexual abuses that are frequent to inmates when they are imprisoned.

The article focuses on the prison-rape law related to the case of the repeated rape of prisoner Jan Lastocy by a prison guard, and presenst the views of Norah West corrections spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. on the upcoming compliance audit for the state.

The article focuses on a rape investigation on a regional jail inmate in the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail by the Nelsonville Police Department and Athens County Prosecutor's Office Sexual Assault Response Team in Nelsonville, Ohio.

The articles discusses a lawsuit filed against corrections officer Benny Santiago for allegedly sexually abusing and raping two inmates at Rikers Island, rape culture at the Rose M. Singer Center women's prison, and New York City's settlement of the lawsuit.

The article reports that Judge Edward Korman of the Federal District Court has sentenced federal jail guard Rudell Mullings to seven years in prison on May 4, 2016 for raping an inmate in a jail in Manhattan, New York City on February 14, 2015.

The article reports on the appearance of transgender inmate Ashley Diamond in Georgia's federal court on April 20, 2015 wherein she blamed herself for being a victim of multiple prison rapes following the denial of Judge Marc T. Treadwell on her request for transfer to a lower-security prison.

The article focuses on prevention of sexual assaults in prisons and correctional facilities in the U.S. Topics discussed include the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), steps taken to reduce sexual assaults, and strict orders from the U.S. Congress for the compliance of the law. It mentions that National PREA Standards create policies and practices to ensure a zero tolerance for sexual assault in prisons and corrections facilities by preventing, detecting and responding to sexual abuse.

The article explores sexual violence in prison facilities across the U.S., which continues regardless of facility despite former U.S. President George W. Bush signing the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) into law.

The author reflects on the Prison Rape Elimination Act which obligates correctional facilities to institute strong programs that will eradicate sexual violence in jails.

The article offers information on the report released by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics which indicates that prisons and jails have a long way to comply with the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

The article reports on the results of a survey which revealed that juveniles in jails and adult prisons are not in greater risk for sexual abuses like rape, compared to the adult inmates.

The article reports that María Lourdes Afiuni, the judge who was arrested in the middle of the most prominent human rights cases in Venezuela was raped while in prison and had an abortion after becoming pregnant. It mentions that Amalio Graterol, lawyer of Afiuni confirmed the account of rape which occurred in 2010. Moreover, it says that Isabel González, former director of the prison where Afiuni was detained has called for the investigation of the incident.

The article offers information on Darrell Williams, the former Oklahoma State basketball player who is driven away from the Payne County Jail in Stillwater, Oklahoma on October 12, 2012 after he avoided more time behind bars. It informs that Williams was suspended sentenced prison in a sexual assault case. It informs that Phillip Corley, the District Judge of Payne County denied William's request for a new trial but gave him a sentence that allowed him to avoid prison time.

After a three-year delay, the Justice Department has finally issued mandatory rape prevention policies for federal prisons and state correctional institutions that receive federal dollars. The new rules, which were given the force of an executive order, are a clear improvement over a draft version. If monitored and enforced, they could help curb the assaults that are shamefully endemic to the corrections system. The new rules coincide with the release of a frightening study from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, which found that nearly 10 percent of former state prisoners said they had been sexually victimized during their most recent confinement. That is more than double the percentage found in a previous Bureau of Justice Statistics study released in 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the comprehensive mandate released by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to guide the rolling out of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. It notes that the comprehensive mandate was issued to strengthen the implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act which was passed in 2003 in order to alleviate sexual victimization in prisons. It states that zero-tolerance policy against prison rape and strengthening LGBT protections are some of the provisions under the regulations.

The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, Alabama's only women's prison, is the site of sexual assault and ''pervasive sexual harassment,'' says a report to be released Tuesday by The Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit group based in Montgomery. The report says guards have impregnated at least two inmates; it describes other instances of sexual assaults by guards, in one case by a chaplain. The report also says inmates are punished for reporting sexual misconduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Thursday issued the first comprehensive federal rules aimed at ''zero tolerance'' for sexual assaults against inmates in prisons, jails and other houses of detention. The regulations, issued after years of discussions among officials and prisoner advocacy groups, address a problem that a new government study finds may afflict one out of every 10 prisoners, more than twice as many as suggested by an earlier survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study on juvenile incarceration in adult jails which are at risk for sexual and physical assault. It mentions that juvenile exposed to said assault can face an increased of attempted suicide and risk of suicide. Researchers illustrate those children who get in touch with adult criminal are much less chance to be successful when they came out than youth held in the juvenile justice system.