PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act)
Read articles, columns and other content from Corrections1 related to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA, P.L. 108-79), which was enacted by Congress to address the problem of sexual abuse of persons in the custody of U.S. correctional agencies.
Catherine Dutcher, 24, was fired from her job at a juvenile correctional center on the same day she was arrested
The bi-partisan legislation, now on its way to President Biden to sign, forces BOP to fix and replace surveillance cameras
The high-ranking official, who has admitted to beating Black inmates in the 1990s, has “openly shared some of his past and has shared ... that he’s a changed man”
In a three-paged letter to AG Eric Holder, Governor Rick Perry outlined the reasons why he would not be holding the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to PREA standards
The first PREA certification has been awarded in Florida, to the Santa Rosa County Jail
Nearly 9,000 incidents of sexual victimization against inmates in U.S. prisons and jails were reported in 2011