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
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
Just Detention International was disturbed by the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) abrupt announcement, on Monday, April 15, that it plans to close FCI Dublin, a federal women’s prison in California that has been plagued with sexual abuse. The decision came as a shock in light of a federal judge’s recent appointment of Special Master Wendy
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 4, 2023 —Los Angeles and Washington D.C., Sept 4, 2023 — Just Detention International celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the landmark law that sparked a sea change in how corrections agencies handle sexual abuse within their facilities. The legislation has also deepened our understanding
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., May 4, 2023 — JDI applauds Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) for reintroducing the landmark Sexual Abuse Services in Detention Act (SASIDA). The bill — which had been introduced in the Senate in September 2022, during the previous Congressional session — would lead to a dramatic increase
