Prison Rape Elimination Act Blunders: Arizona Department of Corrections Refuses to Comply with PREA Standards
On May 15, 2014, the State of Arizona joined six other states and one territory in a dubious group that has missed the deadline for compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), a federal statutory scheme that set “national standards for the detection, reduction, and punishment of prison rape,” signed into law in 2003.