CANY comment

Correctional Association of NY Comments on PREA National Standards The Correctional Association of New York FOUNDED 1844 2090 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BLVD. • SUITE 200 • NEW YORK, NY 10027 • TEL. (212) 254-5700 • FAX (212) 473-2807 • www.correctionalassociation.org Robert Hinchman Senior Counsel Office of Legal Policy Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Room 4252 Washington, DC 20530 RE: Docket No. OAG-131; AG Order No. 3143-2010 National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape Dear Attorney General Holder, On behalf of the Correctional Association of New York and pursuant to Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, we submit these comments in support of the recommended national standards for enhancing the prevention, detection and response to sexual abuse in confinement that were developed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. The Correctional Association of New York (CA) is one of only two independent organizations in the United States that have legislative authority to visit prisons and report on conditions of confinement. Since 1846, the CA has carried out this special legislative mandate to keep policymakers and the public informed about conditions of confinement that affect both inmates and corrections staff. One of the CA’s central goals is to be an instrument for systemic change within the prisons by monitoring correctional ...