Justice Programs Office February 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Hearing of the Review Panel on Prison Rape
Document Number: E8-3016
Type: Notice
Date: 2008-02-19
Agency: Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Justice Programs Office
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announces the second and third hearings of the Review Panel on Prison Rape (Panel), which will be held in Washington, DC, on March 11-14, 2008, and in Houston, Texas on March 27-28, 2008. The hearing times and location are noted below. The purpose of the hearings is to assist the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in identifying common characteristics of victims and perpetrators of prison rape, and prison systems with the highest and lowest incidence of prison rape. On December 16, 2007, BJS issued the report Sexual Victimization in State and Federal Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2007. The report presents data from the National Inmate Survey, 2007 conducted in 146 state and federal prisons. The report provides a listing of state and federal prisons ranked according to the incidence of prison rape as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. The Panel is required to conduct separate public hearings on the operations of the three prisons with the highest incidence of prison rape and the two prisons with the lowest incidence of prison rape.
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Document Number: E8-2599
Type: Notice
Date: 2008-02-13
Agency: Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Justice Programs Office
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