Category: Press Releases

JDI Statement on the Shuttering of the PREA Resource Center

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., April 23, 2025 — In a devastating blow to the fight to stop prisoner rape, the National PREA Resource Center is closing its doors after its federal funding was abruptly cut late yesterday. Since its launch in 2010, the center has served as a one-stop shop for essential training and

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

Just Detention International Calls for Justice and Safety for Survivors at FCI Dublin

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