PREA Standards in Focus is a feature designed to provide a quick synopsis of a PREA standard, the intent and purpose, implementation tips, challenges, and a few audit issues related to the standard to assist in further awareness and education. FAQs and resources are directly linked to provide ease of access and bundle in one place.
This resource explains what intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are, describes common behaviors of people who have these disabilities, and provides guidance and examples for communicating effectively and professionally with people in custody who have IDD. Activating Change has created a color version and a black and white version, so facilities may use and print whichever version is most convenient and cost-effective for them.
This resource explains what intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are, describes common behaviors of people who have these disabilities, and provides guidance and examples for communicating effectively and professionally with people in custody who have IDD. Activating Change has created a color version and a black and white version, so facilities may use and print whichever version is most convenient and cost-effective for them.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) sets standards to ensure that information about PREA and victim services are accessible to people with disabilities. The purpose of this guide is to provide strategies to correctional agencies that will aid their compliance with these PREA requirements. The strategies discussed in this guide draw on established practices used by victim service organizations—both community-based and those based in government agencies—to make their services more accessible for this population. By offering concrete recommendations on how to adapt these community practices to correctional settings, this guide aims to help adult and juvenile correctional facilities increase accessibility for people with disabilities. While it is not a focus of this guide, an important component to making PREA and victim services accessible for people with disabilities is to institutionalize any new practices or partnerships in facility policy.
The Vera Institute of Justice, in collaboration with the National PREA Resource Center, presents a webinar to introduce a resource on how to make PREA information and victim services accessible for incarcerated adults and juveniles with disabilities. Presenters will discuss the PREA requirements, provide foundational information on disabilities, and walk participants through a new implementation guide that provides practical, low-cost strategies for adult and juvenile facilities on how to increase accessibility to PREA information and victim services.
This guide, produced by the Vera Institute of Justice, describes what language access is and why it matters, and provides concrete steps for how correctional agencies can craft language access plans and engage interpreters and translators that are consistent with requirements in the National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape (often called the “PREA Standards”).
The Center on Victimization and Safety at the Vera Institute of Justice, in collaboration with the PREA Resource Center (PRC), presented a webinar to introduce a new resource on how to make PREA information and services accessible to incarcerated people who are limited English proficient. During this webinar, presenters Allison Hastings and Jannette Brickman from Vera discussed the PREA requirements, provided an overview of language access and why it matters, and walked participants through the steps in the new guide for creating PREA-compliant language access plans.
This guide, produced by the Vera Institute of Justice, describes what language access is and why it matters, and provides concrete steps for how correctional agencies can craft language access plans and engage interpreters and translators that are consistent with requirements in the National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape (often called the “PREA Standards”).
In this webinar, Allison Hastings from Activating Change provides an overview of disability, incarceration, and sexual victimization and discusses people who are blind or have low vision and the barriers and risks they face inside. She offers practical strategies that facilities can use to make PREA information and reporting accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, in accordance with the requirements of Standard §115.16.
Autistic people and people on the autism spectrum who are in custody often experience environmental, sensory, and communication barriers that can threaten their safety. In this webinar, Allison Hastings from Activating Change provides an overview of disability, incarceration, and sexual victimization and discusses access considerations that can increase sexual safety for autistic people in custody. She offers practical strategies that facilities can use to make PREA-related prevention and response functions more accessible to autistic people in custody, in accordance with the requirements of Standard §115.16.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who are in custody often experience information and communication barriers that can threaten their safety. In this webinar, Allison Hastings from Activating Change provides an overview of disability, incarceration, and sexual victimization and discusses access considerations that can increase sexual safety for people with IDD in custody. She offers practical strategies that facilities can use to make PREA-related prevention and response functions more accessible to people with IDD in custody, in accordance with the requirements of Standard §115.16.
This educational poster uses accessible design, plain language, icons, and social stories to ensure that all people in custody, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities are able to understand their right to be free from sexual abuse and how to report and get help if they experience abuse. This poster is designed to be printed on 11 x 17 paper and is customizable. Each version contains highlighted sections where facilities can insert specific phone numbers, locations, and addresses. There is a placeholder box in the bottom right corner of each version where facilities can insert their logo. Activating Change created four versions of this poster to enable facilities to use and print whichever version is most relevant and cost-effective for them: 1) a color version with an external reporting option via mail; 2) a black and white version with an external reporting option via mail; 3) a color version with a phone number for external reporting; and 4) a black and white version with a phone number for external reporting.