Jason D. Effman was appointed to the position of Associate Commissioner with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in 2013. He is responsible for developing and implementing policy to combat sexual victimization in New York’s prisons, and for overseeing DOCCS’ compliance with the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.
As a member of DOCCS’ Executive Team, he established and now oversees the Sexual Abuse Prevention & Education Office. In July 2015, he was certified as a Department of Justice PREA Auditor. He began his career with DOCCS in 1999 as an Assistant Counsel, where he worked on a wide variety of legal matters on behalf of the Department. He began working on litigation concerning sexual abuse in early 2003, which grew into his work around the prevention of sexual victimization.
Starting in 2005, Mr. Effman began representing the Department in national activities related to the implementation of PREA, including serving in an advisory capacity on the U.S. Department of Justice and PREA Resource Center project to develop the PREA audit instrument.
Mr. Effman is one of the original members of the National PREA Coordinator’s Working Group, an organization that was formed in early 2019 to facilitate collaboration amongst the agency wide PREA Coordinators on important policy and practice matters. He was named as Vice-Chair of the working group in March 2022.
