In January 2018, a guilty verdict was reached against a former prison guard from the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York. He was charged with raping an inmate at least four times between December 2015 and April 2016, and now faces a life sentence in prison. He was not alone; two other guards he worked with were similarly charged. The sentencing aligns with the highly publicized #MeToo movement, which thus far has been popularized by high-status figures. However, more

In 2001, there were approximately 2,100,146 persons incarcerat​​ed throughout the United States, with 1,324,464 individuals in federal or state prisons and 631,240 individuals in county and local jails. Congress also determined that at least 13% of those incarcerated have been sexually assaulted in prison. Inmates with mental illnesses and juveniles sentenced to incarceration within adult prisons are at a greater risk. Along with a zero-tolerance national policy for prison ra

While 2016 was a year filled with many newsworthy stories in the criminal law world, the story of Stanford student, Brock Turner, captured the attention and concern of many. The events that unfolded from this Stanford rape case were unexpected in some ways, leading California to toughen up its laws against rape. Because of the Brock Turner case, California lawmakers approved a mandatory sentencing for rape cases, a bold move they had not done before. While some regard this