Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: A Toolkit for Jails
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 20, 2012
ANNOTATION: “The goal of this Toolkit is to provide jails of all sizes, political divisions, and geographic locations with a step-by-step guide for preventing, detecting, and eliminating sexual abuse of inmates1 in their custody – and for responding effectively to abuse when it does occur … Protecting arrestees, detainees, and inmates from sexual violence is part of a jail’s core mission. This Toolkit will help assess your jail’s operations with an eye to improvements” (p. 4). This publication is divided into three parts: PREA implementation—general information, PREA standards, definitions and terms, developing strategies to comply with the standards, inmate management, services, cross-gender searches, and transgender inmates, Inmate Management and Services Self-Assessment Checklist, inmate screening, Inmate Screening Self-Assessment Checklist, reporting, Reporting Self-Assessment Checklist, investigations, Investigations Self-Assessment Checklist, training and education, Training and Education Self-Assessment Checklist, data collection, and Data Collection Self-Assessment Checklist; Self-Assessment Checklist support materials; and appendix—PREA background information.
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