Category: Press Releases

Justice Department to Hold Hearings on Sexual Abuse in Youth Detention

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,

In Juvenile Justice System, Staff Sexual Abuse Runs Rampant

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