BJA FY 11 Prison Rape Elimination Act: Demonstration Projects to Establish "Zero Tolerance" Cultures for Sexual Assault Program

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	Federal Grant Title:	BJA FY 11 Prison Rape Elimination Act: Demonstration Projects to Establish "Zero Tolerance" Cultures for Sexual Assault Program
	CFDA Number:	16.735
	CFDA Description:	Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Discretionary Grant Program
	Federal Agency Name:	Bureau of Justice Assistance
	Category of Funding Activity:	Law Justice and Legal Services
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	BJA-2011-3069
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Jun 08, 2011
	Creation Date:	Jun 08, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 07, 2011
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 07, 2011
	Archive Date:	Aug 06, 2011
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	600,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Applicants are limited to units of state and local governments and federally recognized Indian tribes (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). Special Notice: BJA may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the score of the application as determined through the competitive peer review process and the availability of appropriations in future years. This may result in some solicitations being posted every other year as opposed to every year.
Grant Description: Based on the Department of Justices (DOJ) analysis of data compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), approximately 200,000 adult prisoners and jail inmates suffered some form of sexual abuse while incarcerated during 20081 (see BJS, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 200809 (August 2010)). This suggests 4.4 percent of the prison population and 3.1 percent of the jail population within the United States suffered sexual abuse during that year. In some prisons, nearly 9 percent of the population reported abuse within that time; in some jails the corresponding rate approached 8 percent. In juvenile facilities, the numbers are similarly troubling. At least 17,100 adjudicated or committed youth (amounting to some 12 percent of the total population in juvenile detention facilities) reported having suffered sexual abuse within 12 months of arriving at their facility, with rates as high as 36 percent in specific facilities (see BJS, Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 200809 (January 2010), pages 1, 4).
Link to Full Grant Announcement: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bja/grant/11preasol.pdf
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Similar Government Grants: • BJA FY 10 Resource Center for the Elimination of Prison Rape; • 2010 Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies; • Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program; • Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Discretionary Grant Program