Prison Rape Elimination Act Program
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Prison Rape Elimination Act Program
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Program is administered by the U.S Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. The program’s purpose is to eliminate prison rape in the country’s prisons and jails for adults and juveniles. One of the main objectives of the program is to support the implementation of the PREA standards as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act. These standards as they apply to all adult prisons and jails, juvenile correctional facilities, police lockups, and community residential centers. The standards, which took effect on August 20, 2012, seek to prevent sexual abuse and to reduce the harm that it causes. The standards are grouped into eleven categories: prevention planning, responsive planning, training and education, screening for risk of sexual victimization and abusiveness, reporting, official response following an inmate report, investigations, discipline, medical and mental care, data collection and review, and audits.
In the State of New Mexico, the New Mexico Department of Public Safety is partnered with state prisons to implement and bring facilities into 100% compliance while preventing sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual harassment in correctional facilities across the state.
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For grant eligibility, please contact DPS.GMS@state.nm.us