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5 By prohibiting multiple punishments for a single criminal act Penal Code section 654. affords protection beyond and different from that given by either the constitutional proscrip-. tion of subsequent jeopardy or the implementation of that doctrine by Penal Code section 1023..
Because the survey tallies victims and not incidents, an inmate who is raped repeatedly in a given year counts as a single entry. Itâs realistic to believe that the true number of incidents is a multiple many times that 200,000 figure. âRape is not part of the penalty,â says Stannow.