AGENCY TESTIMONY
Overview of the Prison Rape Elimination Act and DOC compliance
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The Commissioner provides an overview of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) and its standards, explaining how the Department of Correction has been working towards compliance since 2015. She also mentions the Board of Correction's minimum standards for eliminating sexual abuse and harassment.
- PREA standards cover prevention, training, screening, reporting, and investigation of sexual abuse in correctional facilities
- DOC began working towards PREA compliance in 2015
- Board of Correction standards align with PREA and went into effect in January 2017
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
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The Prison rape Elimination Act is a federal statute that outlines the essential elements required to prevent the sexual abuse of individuals in correctional facilities.
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Finalized in 2012, The act provides standards in the areas of prevention, training and education, screening for risk of sexual victimization and abuseiveness, ways for people in custody to report sexual abuse and harassment, agency response, following a report, investigations, discipline, medical, and mental health care, data collection and review, and audits and appropriate corrective action.
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The department began working towards compliance with these standards in 2015.
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Border correction minimum standards for the elimination of sexual abuse and sexual harassment outlined many of the same standards as Priya.
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And went to into effect in January 2017.
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Our goal is not only to comply with pre op standards, but to adopt more comprehensive best practices that ensures everyone who enters our jails, whether staff, people in custody, or visitors remain safe.
