Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., September 15, 2020 — Linda McFarlane, a veteran advocate and JDI’s longtime Deputy Executive Director, will take over next month as the organization’s new Executive Director. McFarlane brings to the role her extensive experience leading JDI’s pathbreaking initiatives to prevent and respond to sexual abuse inside detention facilities, and her expertise
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., June 30, 2020 – After a lengthy delay, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has finally released some of the data on sexual abuse in the juvenile justice system that it withheld from a December 2019 report. The findings show that in the most dangerous youth facilities, it is staff
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., May 15, 2020 — At a time when partisan wrangling is the norm, a Democrat and a Republican in the Senate have united behind a landmark piece of legislation to help people in detention whose lives have been shattered by sexual abuse. This week Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Brian
The Sexual Abuse Services in Detention Act would establish the country’s first-ever rape crisis hotline for prisoners Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., May 13, 2020 —The U.S. Senate took a major step toward bringing safety and dignity to incarcerated people this afternoon by introducing the Sexual Abuse Services in Detention Act (SASIDA). Sponsored by Senators
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., December 11, 2019 — A report by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) finds that sexual abuse has decreased significantly in youth detention facilities. Overall, 7.1 percent of youth reported being sexually abused in their current facility over the previous year — a sharp decline from the previous