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The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange published the following article this week on the Prison Rape Elimination Act

Posted in 2013, Research & Policy Tuesday, 13 August 2013

The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange published the following article this week on the Prison Rape Elimination Act:

By James Swift

In 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) — a federal legislative proposal that sought to curb incidents of sexual assault in both adult prisons and juvenile detention facilities — was signed into law by President George W. Bush.

The newly formed National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) was then tasked with establishing PREA standards; ultimately, nine years would pass before the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the final standards set forth by the NPREC.

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