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youth spending time in adult facilities so elected and appointed officials could develop more effective juvenile justice policies and support the passage of the bill. The Prison Rape Elimination Act was originally signed into lacy by President Bush in 2003 to address sexual violence behind bars. A key component of the lacy was the creation of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission ( NPREC), a bipartisan federal commission charged with developing national standards addressing prisoner rape and the requirements would apply to all detention facilities, including federal and state prisons, jails, police lock -ups, private facilities, and immigration detention centers. The NPREC held public hearings, had expert committees to draft the standards and released their final recommendations by issuing a report and set of standards (available online at http: www.ncirs.gov pdffiles] 226680.pdf Who supports PREA? American Probation and Parole Association Correctional Education Association International Community Corrections Association National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence Missouri Youth Services Institute Campaign for Youth Justice American Jail Association National Juvenile Detention Association Center for Children's Law and Policy Familv Violence Prevention Fund National Alliance to End Sexual Violence 'This is only a partial list of national supporters » » » »» 5. RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE DEATH PENALTY WITH THE SENTENCE OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE Source Council Member Joseph Lyons, City of Claremont Referred To : Public Safetv Policy Committee Recommendation to General Resolutions Committee WHEREAS the administration of the death penalty costs California taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars more to administer than life imprisonment without the possibility of parole; WHEREAS death penalty cases cost County taxpayers millions of dollars more to prosecute than cases that seek life imprisonment without the possibility of parole; WHEREAS the non - partisan California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice Senate Commission concluded that California's death penalty system is systemically dysfunctional and will require hundreds of millions of dollars to reform; WHEREAS the death penalty is not a deterrent and does not make our Cities or the State of California a safer place to live; WHEREAS California's Cities face severe cuts to the services needed to keep their neighborhoods safe and have had to resort to layoffs and furloughs because of reductions in revenues from State and County sources; WHEREAS the millions of dollars in savings realized by replacing the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole could be spent on: education, roads, police officers and public safety programs, after - school programs, drug and alcohol treatment, child abuse prevention programs, mental health services, and services for crime victims and their families. 14