Preventing Prisoner Rape Project

The Preventing Prisoner Rape Project is a national project in Australia which aims to:

• raise awareness about the issue of rape in prisons

• reach out and support prison rape survivors

• support workers both inside and outside prisons who are trying to deal with sexual violence in detention

• bring about law reform and changes to prison administration to prevent prisoner rape.

While our key area of concern relates to men’s and women’s prisons, we are also concerned about sexual violence in juvenile justice centres, secure mental health facilities, and immigration detention centres.

Current initiatives

• We have developed a support package for male prison rape survivors. We will soon produce a support package for women.

• We are reaching out to workers both inside and outside prisons who are trying to respond to this issue.

• We are making links with other groups committed to prison reform, prison action, prisoner support, and so on.

• We are seeking stories, documents, records, and reports of prison rape from across Australia so that we can start to build a case that this is an issue that needs to be taken seriously.

Free resources available online

The Preventing Prisoner Rape Project has many resources available free online. To access these resources, visit www.dulwichcentre.com.au/preventing-prisoner-rape.html

We’d like to hear from you

If this is an issue that you care about, we would really value hearing from you. We would be interested to hear your ideas, suggestions, or stories.

Preventing Prisoner Rape Project

Post: PPR, Dulwich Centre Foundation, Hutt St PO Box 7192, Adelaide SA Australia 5000
Phone: +61 8 8223 3966 | Fax: +61 8 8232 4441
Web: www.dulwichcentre.com/preventing-prisoner-rape.html
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