Just Detention International

Through Bridging the Gap: Helping Service Providers and Corrections Officials Come Together to Respond to Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Detention, Just Detention International (JDI) will provide training and technical assistance to local rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and corrections agencies — including prisons, jails, and youth facilities — to strengthen organizational expertise and build community-based partnerships that address the unique needs of sexual abuse survivors who are currently or formerly incarcerated. JDI will support advocates and corrections officials across the country, particularly those in rural and Tribal communities, to develop sustainable partnerships, build capacity to provide services to survivors behind bars, and ensure survivors know how to get services upon their release.

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.