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
Advocates are encouraged by new data showing that adults and kids in detention are more comfortable speaking out. But shoddy investigations continue to plague both adult and juvenile systems. Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., June 2, 2021 — Children and adults in custody are filing a record number of sexual abuse reports, according to a
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., November 24, 2020 — Newly released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) shows a direct link between widespread sexual abuse in youth detention facilities and blatantly unprofessional behavior by staff. The findings detail how staff perpetrators routinely crossed boundaries with children prior to abusing them, in ways that should