{"data":{"id":"us/34-u.s.c.-30302","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"34 U.S.C. § 30302","heading":"Purposes","body":"The purposes of this chapter are to—(1) establish a zero-tolerance standard for the incidence of prison rape in prisons in the United States; (2) make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system; (3) develop and implement national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of prison rape; (4) increase the available data and information on the incidence of prison rape, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities; (5) standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of prison rape; (6) increase the accountability of prison officials who fail to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish prison rape; (7) protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners; (8) increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Federal expenditures through grant programs such as those dealing with health care; mental health care; disease prevention; crime prevention, investigation, and prosecution; prison construction, maintenance, and operation; race relations; poverty; unemployment; and homelessness; and (9) reduce the costs that prison rape imposes on interstate commerce.","path":["Title 34—CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT","CHAPTER 303—PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc34@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:59:14Z","sha256":"ccb0e5ffd537a43f0cca932867f0e97f4397a9ffb3f943b407d32306e228a502","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/34-u.s.c.-30301","next":"us/34-u.s.c.-30303"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}