United States: Restrictive Housing Reform Implementation Assistance Program

Deadline: 10-Aug-21

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications from training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to help state correctional agencies implement changes to reduce their use of restrictive housing while ensuring the safety and well-being of those who live and work in correctional facilities.

• provide support and assistance to correctional agencies that are ready to implement reforms,
• create resources based on national implementation efforts that will be made available to correctional agencies and facilities engaged in or considering restrictive housing reform, and
• develop practices for correctional agencies to use in collecting and analyzing data to measure the impact of reforms

• Assist correctional agencies in implementing meaningful policies, trainings, and practices that will lead to a reduction in the use of restrictive housing while maintaining institutional safety.
• Assist correctional agencies and facilities with coming into and/or maintaining compliance with the National Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards that limit the placement in restrictive housing of incarcerated people who are at high risk for sexual victimization or have been alleged to have been sexually abused.
• Increase staff capacity to support and implement reforms.
• Identify, document, and publicize innovative implementation practices in order to inform similar efforts across the country.
• Develop tools and resources based on nationwide implementation efforts that can be used by correctional agencies that are working to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of restrictive housing.
• Promote correctional agencies’ collection and analysis of data on restrictive housing to measure the impact of reforms.

• Materials and a strategy to promote a competitive, objective site selection process to select sites that are geographically diverse and will receive strategic support and implementation assistance.
• Implementation plans that will incorporate policy, training, and practice reforms, with a focus on sustainability.
• Documentation of the outcomes of these implementation efforts so they can be leveraged and replicated in jurisdictions nationwide.
• A national convening of selected sites, stakeholders, and correctional leaders that have already started implementation efforts to promote peer-to-peer learning and best practices for restrictive housing reform.
• Identification and documentation of the steps needed to promote and institutionalize broad agency/facility staff buy-in for restrictive housing reform.
• Tools and resources that can be used by any agency or facility that is implementing reforms. These tools should include information on the steps needed to promote and institutionalize broad agency/facility staff buy-in, a roadmap of milestones and expected challenges, and examples of ways for correctional agencies to regularly collect and analyze data on restrictive housing to measure the impact of reforms and ensure an equitable impact on the incarcerated population.
• Practices/models for correctional agencies to use when collecting and analyzing data to measure the impact of reforms.

• Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $2,100,000.00
• Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $2,100,000.00
• Anticipated Number of Awards: 1
• Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
• Period of Performance Duration (Months): 30

• For profit organizations other than small businesses, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Small businesses, Other.
• To advance Executive Order 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 allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
• 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=334340