34 USC § 30302 - Purposes

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identifier: "/us/usc/t34/s30302"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "34 USC § 30302 - Purposes"
title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
section_number: "30302"
section_name: "Purposes"
chapter_number: 303
chapter_name: "PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 108–79, § 3, Sept. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 974.)"
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# § 30302. Purposes

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.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 108–79, § 3, Sept. 4, 2003, 117 Stat. 974.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.