BJA FY 15 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Assessment Technical Assistance and Maximizing Local Reforms

The summary for the BJA FY 15 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Assessment Technical Assistance and Maximizing Local Reforms grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
BJA FY 15 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Assessment Technical Assistance and Maximizing Local Reforms: Approximately 2.2 million people were incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons and jails in 2013, a rate of 1 out of every 110 adults.1 After three years of declines, the prison population increased slightly in 2013, largely due to growth in state prison populations. These prisons face crowding and resource challenges. Accordingly, state spending on corrections has remained high. Over the last 25 years, state corrections expenditures have increased significantly—from $12 billion in 1988 to more than $55 billion in 2013.2
Similar trends are evident on the local level. The local jail population declined by 13,300 from 2012 to 2013, a decrease of 1.8 percent;3 however, the trend over time indicates an increase in jail use. From 2000 to 2013, the nation’s jail population increased by nearly 18 percent. As a result, many jails remain overcrowded yet lack resources dedicated to treatment or programming. Local expenditures on building and operating jails increased nearly 235 percent from 1982 to 2011, a figure that likely underrepresents local investments because it may not include costs such as employee pensions, inmate health care, and other costs outside corrections budgets.4 The returns on these investments in local jails are disheartening. Pretrial detention, even for short periods, has been found to correlate with reduced public safety and worse case outcomes.5 Additionally, when a small fraction of people consume a disproportionately large share of jail resources due to mental health problems, substance addiction, and homelessness—as is the case for several local JRI sites and other jail systems studied recently—local justice systems are not achieving the public safety outcomes that their communities expect.
Justice reinvestment emerged as a way to address these issues, both at the state and local level, through a targeted, data-driven policymaking process. BJA, in a public/private partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts, launched the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) in 2010 as a multistaged process in which a jurisdiction increases the cost-effectiveness of its criminal justice system by investing in high-performing public safety strategies.
JRI is a public-private partnership between BJA, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and JRI technical assistance (TA) and assessment providers. Justice Reinvestment at the local level is fundedsolely by BJA. Funding from BJA is authorized under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Pub. L. 113-235.
Federal Grant Title: BJA FY 15 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Assessment Technical Assistance and Maximizing Local Reforms
Federal Agency Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Grant Categories: Law Justice and Legal Services
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: BJA-2015-4152
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 16.827
CFDA Descriptions: Justice Reinvestment Initiative
Current Application Deadline: May 19, 2015
Original Application Deadline: May 19, 2015
Posted Date: Mar 31, 2015
Creation Date: Mar 31, 2015
Archive Date: Jun 18, 2015
Total Program Funding:
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $2,560,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $0
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
For profit organizations other than small businesses
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility
Category 1: Eligible applicants are limited to national-scope private and non-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations) and colleges and universities, both public and private (including tribal institutions of higher education). For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.
For Category 1, BJA welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire project. Only one application per lead applicant will be considered; however, subrecipients may be part of multiple proposals.

Category 2: Eligible applicants are limited to local jurisdictions that participated in the federal Justice Reinvestment Initiative at the Local Level:
1. Alachua County, Florida
2. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
3. Charlottesville/Albemarle County, Virginia
4. Delaware County, Ohio
5. Denver City and County, Colorado
6. Grant County, Indiana
7. Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
8. Johnson County, Kansas
9. Lane County, Oregon
10. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
11. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
12. New York City, New York
13. San Francisco City and County, California
14. Santa Cruz County, California
15. Travis County, Texas
16. Yamhill County, Oregon
17. Yolo County, California
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