DOC PREA Coordinator Speaks at National Conference

Earlier this week David Radziewicz, the DOC's PREA coordinator, was a guest speaker at the 2019 Association for Justice-Involved Females and Organizations (AJFO) Conference in Georgia where he presented a workshop on PREA and Transgender Inmates.

AJFO is the only professional conference focused exclusively on women and girls involved with the criminal justice system. The conference was attended by corrections professionals working in adult and juvenile community supervision, community reentry, prisons and jails, representing various states including California, Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

Dave's presentation included a review of the PREA standards that address transgender inmates and what minimum actions are necessary to develop compliant practices, understanding the framework to efficiently implement agency-wide ancillary support services to holistically meet the needs of transgender inmates and learning how to make objective placement and management decisions for transgender inmates.