Deadline: 23-Mar-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding of projects designed to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement facilities, and to achieve and maintain compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) directs DOJ to provide grants to jurisdictions and agencies nationwide to “protect inmates (particularly from prison rape) and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return.”
The goal of this Implementing the PREA Standards, Protecting Inmates, and Safeguarding Communities Grant Program is to assist confinement facilities and the agencies that oversee them in preventing, identifying, and responding to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in these facilities, and to support compliance with the PREA standards.
Objectives
The objectives of the PREA Grant Program are to:
- Reduce sexual abuse in confinement facilities.
- Increase staff capacity for preventing sexual abuse in confinement facilities.
- Promote integration of the PREA standards into the day-to-day operations and cultures of confinement facilities.
- Identify and document innovative and promising practices in order to inform similar efforts across the nation.
- Create cultures of “zero tolerance” of sexual abuse in confinement facilities.
Deliverables
Required program deliverables are:
- A comprehensive, individualized PREA implementation plan that will guide the grantee’s PREA-related activities. Plans must be finalized during the first 6 months following approval of the grant budget, and they must be supported, in close consultation with BJA, by a TTA coach.
- A sustainability plan, developed in conjunction with the TTA coach, which ensures that the BJA-funded PREA strategies and activities will continue after the grant period ends.
- Documentation, developed in conjunction with the TTA coach, of innovative and promising work accomplished during the grant period, which will be made publicly available.
OJP Policy Priority Areas
In FY 2021, and in addition to executing any program-specific prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows:
- 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).
Funding Information
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 30
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $4,500,000.00
Eligible Applicants
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
City or township governments - State governments
- Others
Additional Eligibility Information
To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be eligible for FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330720
