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Anonymous PREA Hotlines Not So Anonymous
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2013, page 50
Following a decade of delays, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards, promulgated by the U.S. Department of Justice, went into effect in August 2013. [See: PLN, September 2013, p.1].
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prison Rape Elimination Act,
Telephones,
Telephone Monitoring.
Location:
Tennessee.
One of the PREA rules, 115.51, states that correctional agencies “shall provide multiple internal ways for inmates to privately report ...
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