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Hearing: Lockups, Native American Detention Facilities, and Conditions in Texas Penal and Youth Institutions -- March 26-27, 2007
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Hearing: Lockups, Native American Detention Facilities, and Conditions in Texas Penal and Youth Institutions -- March 26-27, 2007
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 15, 2007
ANNOTATION: This website provides access to remarks, testimonies, and questions and answers from this hearing about prison rape occurring in lock-ups, Native American facilities, and facilities in Texas. Points of entry include: Chairman's opening remarks and introduction of Commissioners; courts lock-ups and transportation concerns; operations of policy lock-ups and law enforcement standards; operations of policy lock-ups and condition of confinement; PREA training efforts for lock-ups; Native American facilities -- sovereignty overview; reporting of sexual violence in Native American facilities and training efforts in response to PREA; Texas jail response to PREA; accounts of sexual violence in Texas facilities and introduction to the Texas Youth Commission; the Texas Youth Commission -- a broken system embarking on reform; the Safe Prison Program -- the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's response to PREA; and external perspectives on the Texas Safe Prison Program.