Office of Justice Programs August 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Hearing of the Review Panel on Prison Rape
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announces that the Review Panel on Prison Rape (Panel), will hold hearings in Orlando, Florida on August 27, 2008, Washington, DC, on September 10-11, 2008, Springfield, Massachusetts on September 24-25, 2008 and again in Washington, DC, on September 30 and October 1, 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 and prison systems with the highest and lowest incidence of prison rape. On June 25, 2008, BJS issued the report Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007. The report provides a listing of local jails ranked according to the prevalence of sexual victimization, and formed the basis of the Panel's decision about which facilities would be the subject of testimony.
Proposed Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Protective Ensemble Standards for Law Enforcement and CBRN Protective Ensemble Certification Program Requirements
In an effort to obtain comments from interested parties, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice will make available to the general public two draft documents: (1) A draft standard entitled, ``CBRN Protective Ensemble Standard for Law Enforcement'' and (2) a draft companion document entitled, ``NIJ CBRN Protective Ensemble Certification Program Requirements''. The opportunity to provide comments on these two documents is open to industry technical representatives, public safety agencies and organizations, research, development and scientific communities, and all other stakeholders and interested parties. Those individuals wishing to provide comments on the draft documents under consideration are directed to the following Web site: https://www.justnet.org.
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