Deadline: 1 May 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications to fund the Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Violent Crime by Improving Justice System Performance.
BJA’s Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Violent Crime by Improving Justice System Performance provides funding to develop and implement innovative and research-based responses that address a range of criminal justice system problems. It employs the Justice Reinvestment approach to criminal justice which recognizes that every justice agency has a role to play in preventing crime, apprehending and prosecuting perpetrators, ensuring efficient and effective court and pretrial decision making, facilitating appropriate sentencing and treatment, and protecting community security.
BJA seeks proposals in three categories:
- Category 1: Improving Court Processing and Efficient Docket Management
- Category 2: Improving and Implementing Pre-trial Systems
- Category 3: Innovative Approaches to Improve the Efficacy of State, Local, and Tribal Justice Systems
Objectives
- Collect and analyze data, and identify the impediments/barriers to addressing the category-specific criminal justice system challenges.
- Engage stakeholders across the justice system (e.g., law enforcement, court administrators, judges, jails, treatment providers) to diagnose and develop coordinated responses to the category-specific challenges.
- Test, establish, and/or expand innovative ideas and evidence-based strategies to address the category-specific criminal justice system challenges.
Deliverables
- A final report summarizing the changes made and preliminary outcomes.
OJP Priority Areas
In FY 2020, and in addition to executing any program-specific prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows:
- Applications from federally-recognized tribes.
- Applications that address specific challenges that rural communities face.
- Applications that demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent-poverty counties.
- Applications that offer enhancements to public safety in economically distressed communities (Qualified Opportunity Zones).
- Applications that go to enhancing criminal justice and public safety by indicating agreement to comply with one or more of the following law enforcement-related award conditions:
- Where the application is from a State or local government entity that operates at least one correctional facility (as defined at 34 U.S.C. 10251(a)(7)), applications in which the applicant agrees to comply with award conditions related to cooperation with federal law enforcement, as set forth in Appendix C.
- Where the application is from a State or local government entity, applications in which the applicant agrees to comply with award conditions related to noninterference with federal law enforcement, as set forth in Appendix D.
- Where the application is from a State or local government entity, applications in which the applicant agrees to comply with award conditions related to nondisclosure of federal law enforcement information, as set forth in Appendix E.
Funding Information
- Estimated maximum dollar amount for each award: $1,000,000
- Total amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation:$14,000,000
- Period of performance duration: 36 months
- Period of performance start date: October 1, 2020
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
- States
- Territories
- Local units of government
- State and local courts
- Federally recognized Indian tribes (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior)
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325007