PREA Annual Report

Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was passed in 2003 with unanimous support from both parties in Congress.  The purpose of the act was to “provide for the analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape in Federal, State, and local institutions and to provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape.  (Prison Rape Elimination Act, 2003.)  In addition to creating a mandate for significant research from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and through the National Institute of Justice, funding through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Institute of Corrections supported major efforts in many state correctional, juvenile detention, community corrections, and jail systems.

The act also created the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and charged it with developing draft standards for the elimination of prison rape.  Those standards were published in June 2009 and were turned over to the Department of Justice for review and passage as a final rule.  That final rule became effective on August 20, 2012

In 2010, the Bureau of Justice Assistance funded the National PREA Resource Center to continue to provide federally funded training and technical assistance to states and localities, as well as to serve as a single-stop resource for leading research and tools for all those in the field working to come into compliance with the federal standards.

The Crow Wing County Jail has a zero-tolerance policy toward all forms of sexual abuse and sexual harassment in our facility, under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) 2003.  We will enforce all federal, state, and local laws pertaining to inmate sexual misconduct.  All reports will be fully investigated, which includes both allegations of sexual abuse and sexual harassment, by the Crow Wing County Jail and the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office investigative Division.

The Crow Wing County Jail’s continued commitment to maintaining an organizational culture of zero-tolerance toward all forms of sexual abuse and harassment through annual staff training, contractor and volunteer training, notification to all professional visitors, and inmate education are supported by comparing the final statistics for the previous two years.  

The Crow Wing County Jail redacts all personal identifiers (name of victim, date of birth, sex of victim, date reported, and reporting party) when reporting annual statistics. 

2022 Statistics

2021 Statistics