Prison Rape Data Collection Activities, 2022

Excerpt:  “This report fulfills the mandate established by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79) that requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to produce a report, not later than June 30 of each year, on its activities to collect data on prison rape. … It describes BJS’s data collection and developmental activities during 2021 and 2022 and new statistical findings to measure the incidence and prevalence of rape and sexual assault in adult correctional and juvenile justice facilities, including through the National Survey of Youth in Custody, the National Inmate Survey, and the Survey of Sexual Victimization.”