The standards governing an agency’s official response cover staff and agency reporting duties, the agency’s duty to protect someone at imminent risk of sexual abuse, the agency’s responsibility to report allegations of incidents occurring at another facility to that facility, staff first responder duties, coordinated response, prohibition on agreements that would limit the agency’s ability to separate alleged staff abusers from inmates/detainees/residents, and protection for staff and inmates/detainees/residents against retaliation for reporting sexual abuse or harassment.
STANDARDS. Click on the following links to access the official response standards for Adult Prisons and Jails, Community Confinement Facilities, Juvenile Facilities, and Lockups.
Official Response Following an Inmate/Detainee/Resident Report - Resources - General
General
- Legal Liability for Sexual Abuse of Individuals Under Custodial Supervision Webinar, Project on Addressing Prison Rape in collaboration with the National PREA Resource Center (2012).
- List of State Sexual Assault Coalitions available on the website of DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women (2012).
- It Starts With You: Victim Advocates and the New Federal Standards to Stop Prisoner Rape Webinar, Just Detention International in collaboration with the National PREA Resource Center (2012).
- Sexual Abuse in Correctional Settings: What Rape Crisis Counselors Need to Know, The Project on Addressing Prison Rape (2011).
- Sexual Assault in Jail and Juvenile Facilities: Promising Practices for Prevention and Response, Kim English, Peggy Heil, and Robert Dumond (2010).
- National Training Standards for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiners, US Department of Justice (2006).
- A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, Adults/Adolescents, US Department of Justice, Second Edition, Office on Violence Against Women (2013).
- Strategies in Brief: identifying, Investigating, and Prosecuting Witness Intimidation in Cases of Sexual Abuse in Confinement, Viktoria Kristiansson, JD and Charlene Whitman-Barr, JD (2015).
- The Prosecutors’ Resource: Sexual Abuse in Confinement, AEquitas (2016).
Official Response Following an Inmate/Detainee/Resident Report - Resources - Adult Prisons and Jails
Adult Prisons and Jails
- Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: A Toolkit for Jails, Center for Innovative Public Policies and The Moss Group in collaboration with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (2012).
- Staff Emergency Procedures Pocket Guide, Arlington County Sheriff’s Office (2011).
- Investigating Sexual Assaults in Correctional Facilities, National Institute of Corrections (2007).
Official Response Following an Inmate/Detainee/Resident Report - Resources - Community Confinement Facilities:
Community Confinement Facilities
- Embracing the Standards: Community Corrections Webinar, National PREA Resource Center and Vera Institute of Justice (2012).
Official Response Following an Inmate/Detainee/Resident Report - Resources - Juvenile Facilities
Juvenile Facilities
- Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: A Toolkit for Juvenile Agencies and Facilities, Center for Innovative Public Policies and The Moss Group in collaboration with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (2012).