Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., November 10, 2022 — Children held in youth detention facilities are significantly safer from sexual abuse when they are made aware of their rights and are treated with basic decency by staff, according to a new Bureau of Justice (BJS) report based on direct surveys with youth in custody. The
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 28, 2022 — Today Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Sexual Abuse Services in Detention Act (SASIDA), a transformative piece of legislation to bring emotional support services to incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse. SASIDA would set up a grants program for community-based service providers to
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., May 16 2022 — Starting tomorrow, the Department of Justice’s Review Panel on Prison Rape will hold public hearings to question youth detention officials about their efforts to address sexual abuse in their facilities. The Panel has summoned agency leaders who run facilities with some the highest and lowest rates of this abuse,
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., January 21, 2022 — JDI applauds the recent revisions to the federal prison system’s guidelines on housing transgender people. Published last week on the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) website, the guidelines include safeguards to ensure the safety of transgender people in custody, closely matching — and in some ways exceeding
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., November 11, 2021 — Just Detention International (JDI) is thrilled to learn that it has been nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. In their submission to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the nominator — who, per convention, wishes to remain anonymous — cited JDI’s singular role in fighting to end