Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., March 22, 2018 — Just Detention International (JDI) cheered the major increase in funding for the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) included in today’s House of Representatives Omnibus spending package. The bill provides $15.5 million for PREA programs — a fifty percent increase over the amount in last year’s budget. It
At least 200,000 people are sexually abused in detention centres each year, yet their stories have been absent from mainstream movements Jan Lastocy was in a Michigan prison in 1998 when a new guard first began raping her. The months of assault began while she was at work in a warehouse that serviced a men’s prison; the guard
Turning a blind eye to what happens behind bars does us no favours in the battle to end sexual violence in SA. We live in a society that simultaneously condones and rejects rape. Our collective consciousness is aware of the staggeringly high statistics of rape in the country and while at certain times of the