[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25673-25674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09367]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

[OJP (OJP) Docket No. 1799]


Hearings of the Review Panel on Prison Rape

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs, Justice.

ACTION: Notice of hearings.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announces that the Review 
Panel on Prison Rape (Panel) will hold hearings in Washington, DC, on 
May 17-18, 2022. The hearings times and location are noted below. The 
purpose of the hearings is to assist the Bureau of Justice Statistics 
(BJS) in identifying common characteristics of victims and perpetrators 
of sexual victimization in U.S. juvenile facilities, and the common 
characteristics of juvenile facilities with the highest and lowest 
incidence of rape, respectively, based on anonymous surveys by the BJS 
of youth in a representative sample of juvenile facilities. In December 
2019, the BJS issued the report Sexual Victimization Reported by Youth 
in Juvenile Facilities, 2018. The report provides a listing of juvenile 
facilities grouped according to the prevalence of reported sexual 
victimization, and formed the basis of the Panel's decision about which 
juvenile facilities would be the subject of testimony.

DATES: The hearing schedule is as follows:
    1. Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Kevin Scott, Deputy 
Director of the Statistical Operations Division, Bureau of Justice 
Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice; Scott Catey, Associate 
Director, National PREA Resource Center; Deep Creek Youth Academy 
(formerly known as Gulf Academy), Florida Department of Juvenile 
Justice--facility with a high prevalence of sexual victimization; St. 
Anthony Juvenile Corrections Center, Idaho Department of Juvenile 
Corrections--facility with a high prevalence of sexual victimization; 
Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility, Oregon Youth Authority--facility 
with a high prevalence of sexual victimization.
    2. Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Garza County 
Regional Juvenile Center, Texas Juvenile Justice Department--facility 
with a low prevalence of sexual victimization; Jason Szanyi, Deputy 
Director, Center for Children's Law and Policy, W.E. Sears Youth 
Center, Missouri Division of Youth Services--facility with a low 
prevalence of sexual victimization; Dr. David Roush, Senior Advisor, 
National

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Juvenile Detention Association; Professor Brenda Smith, Washington 
College of Law, American University.
    Location: The hearings will take place at Department of Justice, 
Office of Justice Programs, Main Conference Room, Third Floor, 810 
Seventh Street NW, in Washington, DC. Those wishing to attend the 
hearings in person are asked to preregister at https://web.cvent.com/event/4954db60-b0d2-47a5-8dd7-ca02cf376149/summary. The hearings will 
also be streamed online via Microsoft WebEx. Information on accessing 
the livestream will be posted on the Panel's web page (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/reviewpanel/reviewpanel.htm) prior to the hearings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Swiderski, Program Analyst, 
OJP, [email protected], (202) 514-8615. [Note: This is not a 
toll-free number.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Panel, which was established pursuant to 
the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, Public Law 108-79, 117 Stat. 
972 (codified as amended at 34 U.S.C. 30301-30309), will hold its next 
hearings to carry out the review functions specified at 34 U.S.C. 
30303(b)(3)(A). Testimony from the hearings will assist the Panel in 
carrying out its statutory obligations. The witness list is subject to 
amendment; please refer to the Review Panel on Prison Rape's website at 
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/reviewpanel/reviewpanel.htm for any updates 
regarding the hearing schedule. Space is limited at the hearing 
location. Members of the public who wish to attend the hearings in 
Washington, DC, must present government-issued photo identification 
upon entrance to the building, and are requested to register at this 
site:
    At this time, the CDC has updated the COVID-19 Community Level for 
the District of Columbia to ``MEDIUM.'' As a result, all in-person 
attendees must provide proof of vaccination or show a negative COVID-19 
test result from within the previous three days, as well as comply with 
any and all other applicable local and Department health and safety 
requirements that may exist at the time of entrance. Please refer to 
the Review Panel on Prison Rape's website for updated guidance on in-
person attendance in the event the COVID-19 Community Level changes,
    Requests for accommodations should be made to Joseph Swiderski, 
Program Analyst, OJP, [email protected], (202) 514-8615, at 
least one week before the hearings.

Michael Alston,
Director, Office for Civil Rights, Office of Justice Programs.
[FR Doc. 2022-09367 Filed 4-29-22; 8:45 am]
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