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Recent News:
On July 31st, 2023, the Panel released its "Report on Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Correctional Facilities - 2023." You can read the report here.
In accordance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, (codified, as amended, at 34 U.S.C. §§ 30301-30309), the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, appointed the members of the Review Panel on Prison Rape (Panel). Panel Members are:
- Doug Dretke, the Executive Director of the Correctional Management Institute of Texas (CMIT)
- Wendy Leach, Senior Consultant with The Moss Group, Inc. and former prosecutor
- Peter Perroncello a corrections consultant and previously a jail administrator