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  • Executive Training for Newly Appointed Juvenile Facility Directors [Lesson Plan and Participant's Manual]

    This 36-hour training program targets skills needed to effectively lead a juvenile corrections or detention facility.

  • Implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Toolkit for Juvenile Agencies and Facilities

    The goal of this Toolkit is to provide juvenile agencies and facilities of all sizes, political divisions, and geographic locations with a step-by-

  • PREA Audit Instrument - Juvenile Facilities

    These documents comprise the instrument that auditors will use to audit the U.S.

  • Juvenile Detention Facility Assessment: 2014 Update

    "The [Annie E.

  • Maltreatment of Youth in U.S. Juvenile Corrections Facilities: An Update

    "This report, released as a follow-up to No Place For Kids [2011], introduces new evidence on the widespread maltreatment of youth in state-funded

  • Maltreatment in Juvenile Corrections Facilities: An Update

    "This report, released as a follow-up to No Place For Kids, introduces new evidence on the widespread maltreatment of youth in state-funded juvenil

  • Declines in Youth Communities and Facilities in the 21st Century

    "A major reduction has taken place in the number of teenagers committed to juvenile facilities in this century.

  • Survey of Sexual Violence in Juvenile Correctional Facilities, 2007-2012 - Statistical Tables

    This report presents jurisdiction- and facility-level counts of allegations and substantiated incidents of nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexua

  • Review Panel on Prison Rape Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons, Jails, and Juvenile Correctional Facilities, April 2016

    "This Report presents the findings of the Review Panel on Prison Rape (Panel), along with its recommendations, that are the result of its 2014 hear

  • Juvenile Facility Standards: United States Department of Justice Final Rule: National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

    This Standard is divided into these sections: Prevention Planning, Responsive Planning, Training and Education, Screening for Risk of Sexual Victim

  • Safety at a Girls Secure Juvenile Justice Facility (2015)

    Serious juvenile delinquency is a significant and costly problem in the society.

  • Progress Check: Youth Confinement in America Today: Youth Residing In Juvenile Detention, Correctional And/Or Residential Facilities (2016)

    America’s youth confinement rate dropped across all racial and ethnic groups during the last decade - and by 40% overall.

  • Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2015 (2018)

    The 2015 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) shows that the number of youth in placement continues to decline.

  • Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (EZACJRP)

    Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (EZACJRP) was developed to facilitate independent analysis of national data on the