Month: September 2024

House Introduces Key Bill to Help Incarcerated Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 26, 2024 — Today Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) introduced vital legislation to restore dignity to incarcerated people who have been sexually abused. The Sexual Abuse Services in Detention Act (SASIDA, H.R. 9835) would dramatically scale up emotional support services for survivors behind bars. The bipartisan bill

Senate to Hold Hearing on Sexual Abuse in Detention

Just Detention International’s Julie Abbate will join corrections and policy experts and survivors of sexual abuse in detention in testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 24, 2024 — Tomorrow a Senate subcommittee will hold Congress’s first hearing focussing on sexual abuse in prisons and youth detention systems