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Talia Huff, Senior Program Manager; Daniel Bean, Senior Program Associate
During this webinar, we cover PREA Standard 115.78 Disciplinary sanctions for inmates. The purpose of this standard is:
- To ensure that individuals who are confined are held accountable for any sexual abuse of other individuals who are confined.
- To ensure that accountability occurs through a formal disciplinary process that provides appropriate and measured sanctions commensurate with the nature and circumstances of the abuse, the disciplinary history of the person who is confined, and sanctions imposed for comparable offenses by individuals with similar histories.
- To ensure that the disciplinary process considers mental disabilities in determining whether and how to discipline an individual.
- To ensure that facilities consider whether to:
- Require alleged abusers to participate in interventions to reduce the likelihood that they will perpetrate sexual abuse in the future.
- Mandate such interventions as a condition of alleged abusers' access to other programming and benefits in the facility.
- To explain some circumstances under which discipline of a confined person for sexual abuse is not appropriate, such as when a person who is confined has sexual contact with a staff member, and the staff member consented to such contact.
- To clarify that consensual sexual activity between people who are incarcerated is not abuse.
We encourage you to invite your colleagues to join the discussion and use it as an opportunity for ongoing education. Our featured presenters will be Talia Huff, Senior Program Manager (PRC) and Daniel Bean, Senior Program Associate (PRC).
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