Supporting PREA Through Technology

New HampshireDepartment of Corrections

xwave Corporation

May 2009

AgendaPREA PrimerDiscussion – How are YOU supporting

PREA?How is NH currently supporting PREA?Planned PREA Technology Join Us Next Year for a Progress Update!Questions

In this presentation, representatives from the New Hampshire DOC and xwave will explore how they are improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their PREA activities using elements of the CORIS offender management system

– Offender Demographics, Security, Housing and Restriction information

– Assessment Tracking (intake and ongoing)– Programs and Inmate Training– Incident Tracking

• Including Staff-on-Inmate and Inmate-on-Inmate

– Investigations– American Correctional Association (ACA) accreditation

implications and support

PREA Primer

• PREA — the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003– Designed to combat the troubling trend of prisoner sexual assaults– U.S. Congress conservatively estimates that 13% of inmates in

U.S. prisons are sexually assaulted

• Lowering that number means making necessary information available to investigators, assessors and administrators, helping them address the problem proactively, before assaults occur

Discussion

How are YOU supporting PREA?

How is NH currently supporting PREA?

Planned PREA Technology

Join us next year for a

progress update!

Questions?

Useful Linkshttp://www.wcl.american.edu/nic/Articles_Publications/

Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003.pdf?rd=1

http://nicic.org/prea

http://nicic.org/Training/PREA

http://aca.org/standards/pdfs/Proposed_ACA_PREA_Standards_Revisions_and_Enhancements_July_7_2008[1].pdf

http://community.nicic.gov/blogs/prea/archive/2007/11/19/no-cost-assistance-for-prea.aspx

Contacts

• Ron Cormier – State of NH, DOC– CORIS Project Manager– RCormier@nhdoc.state.nh.us– 603.271.4926

• Doug Rowe – xwave Corporation– Industry Solutions – Justice & Public Safety– Doug.Rowe@xwave.com– 800.566.9772 ext. 225