Prison Sexual Abuse

Addressing Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates, Washington College of Law at American University, Washington, DC.

Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons – a national effort to clarify the nature and extent of violence, sexual abuse, degradation, and other serious safety failures and abuses in prisons and jails throughout the United States, as well as the consequences for prisoners, corrections officers, and the public at large, New York, NY and Washington, DC.

Just Detention International (formerly Stop Prisoner Rape) – has three core goals for its work: 1) to ensure government accountability for prisoner rape, 2) to transform ill-informed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention, and 3) to promote access to resources for those who have survived this form of abuse, Los Angeles, CA.

Raising the Bar for Justice and Safety Coalition – the mission is to advocate for the U.S. Attorney General's full and swift adoption of the recommended national standards for the prevention, detection, response, and monitoring of sexual abuse in U.S. detention facilities, as proposed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Los Angeles, CA. Fact sheet.