Just Detention International

Just Detention International, Inc. (JDI)  implements the Aligning Visions: Adapting the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations to Meet the Needs of Incarcerated Survivors project. This project provides recommendations for updating OVW’s 2013 recommendations for administrators of prisons, jails, and community confinement facilities for adapting the U.S. Department of Justice’s A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, Adults/Adolescents.

This project provides training and technical assistance to local rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and correctional facilities (including prisons, jails, and juvenile detention) to strengthen organizational expertise and builds community-based partnerships that address the unique needs of sexual assault survivors who are currently or formerly incarcerated. This project will address how survivors who are released can be connected to community-based sexual assault services.

The Rooted in Resilience project expands advocacy services for currently and formerly incarcerated sexual abuse survivors by building the capacity of sexual assault service organizations and other survivor service organizations to establish sustainable, trauma-informed art workshops in a wide variety of detention and reentry facilities in communities throughout the United States.