Crisis Centers Advocacy Services You Have the Right ALLEGANY ST. MARY’S You have the right to talk to a victim Family Crisis Certification in progress: to be Free From advocate from a rape crisis center. Rape crisis Southern Maryland Center centers help victims of and Resource Center P.O. Box 3072 for Family Advocacy harassment. They can also help victims’ 23918 Mervell Dean Road families. Victim advocates do not work for Lavale, MD 21504 Hotline: (240) 803-7372 Hollywood, MD 20636 DPSCS. Services are free and can include: Hotline: (240) 925-0084

• Crisis Intervention: Someone to talk CARROLL SOMERSET, The Elimination Act: with when you are feelings stressed or Rape Crisis WICOMICO, A Guide for Prisoners anxious Intervention Service WORCESTER • Safety Planning: Someone to help you 224 N. Center St. #102 Life Crisis Center, Inc. Westminster, MD 21157 P.O. Box 387, make a plan to stay as safe as possible Hotline: (410) 857-7322 Salisbury, MD 21803 • Individual and group counseling Hotline: (410) 749-4357 • Information about other services BALTIMORE CITY TurnAround, Inc. WASHINGTON Your facility must give you a reasonable 1800 North Charles St., CASA, Inc. chance to talk or write to a victim 116 West Baltimore St., Suite 404, advocate. Talk to a victim advocate by: Hagerstown, MD 21740 Baltimore, MD 21218 Hotline: (301) 739-8975 • Writing them a letter Hotline: (410) 828-6390 • Calling the crisis hotline ANNE ARUNDEL CAROLINE, • In some facilities, you can ask for an DORCHESTER, in-person counseling visit Crisis Center KENT, QUEEN 1517 Ritchie Hwy. ANNE’S TALBOT Suite 101, Confidentiality For All Seasons, Inc. Arnold, MD 21012 300 Talbot Street Hotline: (410) 222-6800 Your facility must let you contact a victim Easton, MD 21601 advocate “in as confidential a manner as Hotline: (410) 820-5600 possible.” You can ask a staff member or a victim advocate if calls or letters to a rape crisis center will be listened to or read by LEGAL SERVICES staff. Sexual Assault Legal Institute (SALI) (301) 565-2277 Victim advocates do not have to report to P.O. box 8782 your facility if you tell them you were Silver Spring, MD 20907 sexually assaulted. However, victim advocates are required by law to report Preparation of this document was supported by grant certain types of abuse, like child abuse. number #VAWA-2018-0039 awarded by the Governor’s This is called mandatory reporting. A victim Office of Crime Control and Prevention. The opinions, advocate will tell you what they must legally findings, and conclusions expressed in this document are report when you talk with them. those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention. 09/19 What to Do if You Have Been Sexually Abused or Harassed

Sexual Assault Forensic Examination You have the right to get medical care. A sexual Your facility must inform you about the assault forensic exam (SAFE) is free. It is performed YOU HAVE outcome of the investigation. During the by specially trained medical staff. investigation, the facility will use a • You have the right to refuse the exam.You can stop THE RIGHT preponderance of the evidence standard to the exam at any time. to be free from sexual abuse, determine whether the evidence shows it is • Physical evidence disappears quickly. SAFEs must , and more likely than not that the incident happened. be done within five days of the assault. retaliation for making a report. • Try not to eat, drink, brush your teeth, or use Administrative investigations result in one of the bathroom before a SAFE. This may destroy three outcomes: evidence. • If you need it, you have the right to emergency Sexual abuse includes any unwanted or forced sexual contact, display of private parts, or voyeurism, • Substantiated: there is evidence the incident contraception and sexually transmitted infection by a staff member, volunteer or other inmate. happened (STI) medicine. You have a right to this medicine even if you do not name the person who assaulted Sexual harassment includes repeated and unwanted • Unsubstantiated: there is not enough evidence you. sexual comments, gestures, or actions. to make a final decision as to whether or not the incident happened You have the right to talk to a victim advocate The Department of Public Safety and Correctional • Unfounded: there is evidence the incident did during a SAFE. A victim advocate can be there to Services (DPSCS) follows the Prison Rape support you and answer any questions you have. Elimination Act (PREA) standards. You can find the not happen PREA standards at 28 C.F.R Part 115. If your report is substantiated, there may be Reporting Options a criminal investigation.

Reporting sexual abuse, harassment, or retaliation is • A criminal investigation is done by Department your choice. You can report by telling a staff member. of Public Safety and Correctional Services Intelli- You can also make a written report. PREA Investigations gence and Investigative division.

You have the right to report to someone outside your A PREA complaint is treated differently than other • A criminal investigation may eventually lead to facility. You can call the PREA Hotline (410-585-3177). reports or grievances. the person who harmed you being charged and Reports to this number can be made without giving convicted of a crime. your name. These reports will be sent directly to the • Your facility cannot make you informally resolve Intelligence & Investigative Division (IID). a PREA compliant. • Criminal investigations use beyond a reasonable • You can immediately file an Inmate Grievance doubt, a higher standard of evidence. Another person can report for you by: without filing a complaint for Administrative • Telling a staff member or making a written report. Remedy first. Unless the complaint is unfounded, your • Calling the IID (410-724-5742) • If do you file an ARP about sexual abuse, it will be treated as a PREA report and sent to IID. facility will monitor your treatment for 90 days • Calling the PREA Hotline (410-585-3177) after you report sexual abuse. This is to protect You have the right to ask for a victim advocate for you from further harm. If you are at risk of imminent sexual abuse, emotional support during an interview with staff must act to protect you immediately. investigators. All reports will be investigated.