Raped by the System: A Comparison of Prison Rape in the United States and South Africa.

The article focuses on prison rape issues in countries such as the U.S and South Africa. It discusses the comparison of prison rape issued faced by these two countries, issues of prison system management in these countries, and a report of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics on the number of people incarcerated in the U.S in 2012. It argues on the consideration of prison rape as torture under international law and violation of the Eighth Amendment.