SCDC PREA demonstration project, 2016 (Smith)

Welcome to the world of the criminal justice system

Hayden Smith is a Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina.

SCDC PREA demonstration project, 2016 (Smith)

According to the Department of Justice (2012), “for too long, incidents of sexual abuse have not been taken as seriously as sexual abuse outside prison walls. In popular culture, prison rape is often the subject of jokes” (p. 2).

Welcome to the world
of the criminal justice system.