Justice for Victims Behind Bars: Improving the Response to Cases of Sexual Abuse in Confinement

This report is intended to describe the Victims Behind Bars project, detail the analytical framework that guided the communications and meetings implementing the project, and discuss the identified barriers and solutions so these findings can be used and adapted in other jurisdictions.

The Victims Behind Bars project, undertaken during a four-month period in the fall/winter of 2013, involved four steps:

• Identifying and interviewing jurisdictional participants
• Conducting non-site multi-disciplinary meeting
• Following up with participants and field experts
• Analyzing current practices and barriers to responding to sexual abuse in confinement and developing strategies for promising practices for responding to sexual abuse in confinement across the criminal justice continuum.