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Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

Prison Rape Elimination Act: Booz Allen Hamilton Cost Study (2010)

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 mandates that the Department of Justice promote and implement regulations that adopt national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction and punishment of prison rape. The Justice Department is reviewing proposed national standards that the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission prepared for PREA. The Department commissioned an independent contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, to prepare a cost study of the...

Review Panel

The review panel is conducting annual hearings to collect evidence to assist the Bureau of Justice Statistics in identifying common characteristics, not only of victims and perpetrators of prison rape but also of prisons and prison systems with a high incidence of prison rape and those that have successfully deterred prison rape.

PREA Data Collection Activities, 2019

Date Published
June 2019
Agencies
BJS
Publication Type
Statistics, Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description, Legislation/Policy Description