NPREC: Draft Standards for the Prevention, Detections, Response, and Monitoring of Sexual Abuse in Community Corrections
Sexual abuse of defendants and offenders, whether adult or juvenile, in community corrections violates the law. It also violates their basic human rights, impedes the likelihood of their successful reentry into the community, and violates the Government’s legal obligation to provide safe and humane community corrections supervision. No sentence or condition of supervision, regardless of the crime, should ever include rape. A core priority of any community corrections agency or facility must be safety, which means protecting the safety of all—the public, the staff, and the defendant/offender population. In recognition of this, Congress formed the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) to develop national standards that will help eliminate rape and other forms of sexual abuse in community corrections.
Please note these are the original standards drafted by NPREC, not the final PREA Standards.