FY25 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Training Curriculum for New Corrections Staff
Closing Date
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Rape and sexual assault
FY 2022 Implementing the PREA Standards, Protecting People Who Are Incarcerated, and Safeguarding Communities
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Solicitation Released: FY 2021 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence – Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting
The deadlines associated with this opportunity are: June 14, 2021 (Grants.gov) and June 28, 2021 (JustGrants).
SAKI Solicitation Released
BJA is seeking applications for funding through the FY 2020 National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).
'Looking backwards can tell us a whole lot about moving forward'
Photo credit: Cleveland.com
When Cuyahoga County, Ohio, embarked on the testing of nearly 7,000 backlogged sexual assault kits (SAKs) in early 2013, metaphors from Greek and Roman mythology abounded in the Cleveland media coverage – 'Herculean task' and 'Pandora's box' chief among them.
Five years on, now that the backlog has been largely cleared, the sense of dread associated with those words has been replaced by one of...
Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
This program provides funding to state and local governments and federally recognized tribes for demonstration projects within confinement settings, including adult prisons and jails, juvenile facilities, community corrections facilities, law enforcement lockups and other temporary holding facilities, and tribal detention facilities.