The following are definitions of Sexual Abuse, Non-Consensual Acts, Sexual Misconduct, and Sexual Harassment, per Department of Justice (DOJ) Survey of Sexual Violence (SSV): 

 

• Abusive Sexual Contact (Client-on-Client) - Contact of any person without their consent or of a person unable to consent or refuse. Contact between the penis and vagina or penis and anus including penetration, however slight; or contact between mouth and penis, vagina, or anus; or penetration of the anus or genital opening of another person by a hand, finger, or other object.

• Nonconsensual Sexual Acts (Client-on-Client) - Contact of any person without their consent or of a person unable to consent or refuse. Intentional touching, either directly or through clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person.

• Sexual Harassment (Client-on-Client) - Repeated and unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or verbal comments, gestures, or actions of a derogatory or offensive sexual nature by one inmate directed toward another.

• Staff Sexual Misconduct (Staff-on-Client) - Any behavior or act of a sexual nature directed toward an inmate by an employee, volunteer, official visitor, or agency representative. Romantic relationships between staff and inmates are included. Consensual or nonconsensual sexual acts include: intentional touching of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks with the intent to abuse, arouse, or gratify sexual desire; or completed, attempted, threatened, or requested sexual acts; or occurrences of indecent exposure, invasion of privacy, or staff voyeurism for sexual gratification.

• Staff Sexual Harassment (Staff-on-Client) - Repeated verbal statements, comments, or gestures of a sexual nature to a client by an employee, volunteer, contractor, official visitor, or agency representative, including: demeaning references to gender or derogatory comments about body or clothing; or profane or obscene language or gestures.

 

2014 was the first year of accumulating and aggregating all the data from all five facilities so there was not the ability to compare it to prior years.