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Acknowledgements. Executive summary. Section 1: introduction. Section 2: methodology. Section 3: promising practices to prevent and respond to sexual assault in jails and juvenile facilities. 1. Leaders who promote values that advance safety, dignity, and respect for all residents, inmates, and staff; 2. Officials who actively seek better ways to manage the population and who integrate knowledge and ideas from a wide variety of sources including staff, professional associations, accreditation processes, and other agencies and facilities; 3. Open communication between managers and correctional staff, and between correctional staff and inmates and residents; 4. Recruitment and hiring of diverse individuals who are respectful towards others and have effective communication skills, and mentoring and succession planning; 5. Standardized and on–going staff training to transmit values through policies and practices; 6. Direct supervision architecture and direct supervision principles for the behavior management of residents and inmates; 7. Programs and services to (a) productively occupy the time of inmates, (b) meet the needs of prisoners and juveniles, and (c) improve the life outcomes of those who are incarcerated; 8. An objective classification system used to facilitate safety for inmates and staff; 9. A comprehensive and independent investigation process that emphasizes the following: - training security investigation and medical staff in responding appropriately to victims, effective investigation techniques, and promotes cross–training. - responding immediately to all reports of sexual assault, - investigating all incidents of sexual assault, - sensitively responding to victims, - prosecuting criminal behavioral when appropriate. 10. A system of data collection, analysis, and incident tracking system that enables effective, data–driven decision making; and 11. Officials who are committed to (a) learning from litigation, (b) detecting and correcting mistakes, and transparency. References. Appendices. Tables.