National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
May. 17, 2012
ANNOTATION: The goal of this final rule is to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse in adult prisons and jails, lockups, community-based facilities, and juvenile facilities. It was created in response to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). “In drafting the final rule, the Department balanced a number of competing considerations. In the current fiscal climate, governments at all levels face budgetary constraints. The Department has aimed to craft standards that will yield the maximum desired effect while minimizing the financial impact on jurisdictions” (p. 3). Some of the provisions covered by these standards include general prevention planning, supervision and monitoring, staffing of juvenile facilities, juveniles in adult facilities, cross-gender searches and viewing, training and education, screening, reporting, responsive planning, investigations, discipline, medical and mental health care, grievances, audits, LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) and gender nonconforming inmates, and inmates with disabilities and limited English proficient (LEP) inmates. The average estimated annualized cost of compliance for a prison is $55,000, $50,000 per jail, $16,000 per lockup, $24,000 per community confinement facility, and $54,000 per juvenile facility.
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