"Back in 1998, Jan Lastocy was serving time for attempted embezzlement in a Michigan prison. Her job was working at a warehouse for a nearby men’s prison. She got along well with two of the corrections officers who supervised her, but she thought the third was creepy. “He was always talking about how much power he had,” she said, “how he liked being able to write someone a ticket just for looking at him funny.” Then, one day, he raped her...."
Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007–2008
by Allen J. Beck and Paul Guerino
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 62 pp., available at bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov
National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
by the United States Department of Justice
Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 23 (February 3, 2011), 56 pp., available at federalregister.gov/a/2011-1905
Initial Regulatory Impact Analysis for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Proposed National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
by the United States Department of Justice
(January 24, 2011), 65 pp., available at ojp.usdoj.gov/programs/pdfs/prea_nprm_iria.pdf
Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008–09
by Allen J. Beck, Paige M. Harrison, and others
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 91 pp., available at bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov
