Evangelicals are calling on the Obama administration to enact long-promised prison reforms, saying the incarcerated deserve protection from violence and rape.
In 2003, former president George W. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which aimed to lower the estimated 13 percent of inmates sexually assaulted each year.
The bill called for the Department of Justice to research prison rape and requires prisons to establish prevention programs.
Now, the National Association of Evangelicals is urging the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to follow up on the standards proposed.
They have cameras all over prisons. Here is a simple solution: make it a capital offense to rape another inmate. Further, in the event that the rape is caught on video and there is corroborative dna evidence, make the judgement without appeal.