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Project to Advance the National Prison Rape Elimination Act

Eliminating sexual abuse in confinement

PREA Resource Center

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center is funded through a cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Justice Assistance at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Impact Justice.

The PREA Resource Center (PRC) provides information, guidance, and resources to help state and local agencies comply with the PREA Standards and prepare for an audit. Through its federally sponsored website, the PRC offers a comprehensive library of publicly available resources and tools — including training materials, templates, and implementation guides — designed to address common compliance challenges. The PRC advances the conduct of PREA audits by managing a national training, certification, and support program for DOJ-certified PREA auditors; supporting DOJ’s audit oversight efforts; and maintaining essential PREA auditing tools, such as the PREA Online Audit System (OAS), OAS Helpdesk, Audit Assignment System, and other critical audit support systems. 

What We’re Doing

Changing Attitudes & Perceptions

Sexual abuse should never be part of any punishment, and yet it happens in confinement facilities across the country. Promoting sexual safety begins with changing attitudes and perceptions among both staff and incarcerated people. The PRC works to affirm sexual safety as a fundamental human right, educates people about the profound repercussions of abuse and fear of abuse, and most importantly, helps people understand and embrace their own responsibility and capacity to help prevent abuse.

Implementing Policy Change

The PRC assists state, local, and tribal agencies with implementation of the National PREA Standards, which represent sweeping policy change in the treatment and safety of people in prisons, jails, juvenile and community confinement facilities, and lockups. The TIPS (Targeted Implementation Planning and Support) program in particular provides critical support to local facilities in these efforts.

Advancing Practice

The PRC helps confinement agencies to put the PREA standards into practice by creating reporting cultures, training staff, educating people who are confined, providing meaningful support to victims, and undertaking comprehensive, practice-based audits.

PRC is curating and seeding important work to eliminate sexual abuse in custodial settings. They sweat the details and take seriously the goal of eliminating prison rape.

– Professor Brenda V. Smith, American University – Washington College of Law and Director, Project on Addressing Prison Rape

The PRC is the base that supports the successful fight against sexual abuse and sexual harassment in our prisons, jails, juvenile facilities, lockups, and community confinement centers. We can’t win without it.

– David Haasenritter, DOJ Certified PREA Auditor and Regional Manager, Compliance Accreditation Managers Association (CAMA)

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